[tacticalogic]

So....As you drive down the freeway, please take note of the expensive cars on the road. Please glance up at the school buses trekking up the hill to the mini-mansions. Everyone of these people who have kids in the government schools are making it harder on everyone else.

I don't know how it works where you are, but here property owners pay the lion's share of the school taxes.

[wintertime]

I don't know how it works where you are, but here property owners pay the lion's share of the school taxes.
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Property taxes are paid by **everyone**!!!!

This really is Econ 101.

The poor pay property taxes in the form of higher rents. The landlord passes these taxes on to his tenants in the form of higher rents.

Businesses pass on their property taxes in the form of higher prices on **everything** **everyone** uses or consumes!

In fact the poor pay a **higher** burden ( proportionally) on their income because they have little to no discretionary savings. Nearly all of their income is spent on rents and consumer items. Both of which include school taxes.

Geeze! At least the wealthier people can avoid some school taxes by merely saving more of their income rather than spending it.

[wintertime]

I don’t know how it works where you are, but here property owners pay the lion’s share of the school taxes.
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I suppose there is one group of people who can avoid school taxes. That would be those living on a park bench, wearing hand me down clothes, and eating out of restaurant dumpsters.

Yep! They are avoiding school taxes.

Everyone else pays school taxes. The poorer a person is, the bigger the burden.