Yet I have yet to read on Free Republic, or any website or news organization or anything anywhere what the effect these property taxes to pay for union teachers salaries and bennies has on the housing crash. Does no one think raising a thousand dollar mortgage to 1500 had a difference on people's ability to pay their mortgage? Why did no one, NO ONE anywhere see this connection. I gave up commenting about it years ago.
**Everyone** pays plenty for socialist-entitlement schooling. ( I refuse to use the term “public” schooling.)
In my small business, not only did I pay property tax on my business real estate, I also paid property taxes on the very **equipment** that I used to run the business. Unbelievable! The socialist-entitlement school taxes are passed on to the consumer and hidden in the price of **every** product and service every citizen uses.
What are some of the other consequences of our OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive socialist-entitlement system of schooling?
Answer: Businesses move off shore and take their good jobs with them and thereby unemployment increases here in the U.S. And...There are the balance of payments problems. Goods produced here in the U.S. are more expensive and less competitive abroad. Fewer goods and services are exported from the U.S. and more is imported.
And....You are absolutely correct. The high cost of socialist-entitlement, single-payer government schooling and the crushing taxes it imposes on citizens is a BIG factor in the collapse of the **entire** economy, not just the housing market.
Our nation's system of government schooling is an abomination.
Personally, I see socialist-entitlement government schooling to be sooooooo evil for the child, so harmful to us as a nation, and such at threat to our continuing freedom that I will NOT have a government school worker for a friend. They too evil, too stupid, or too much of a Useful Idiot to be a friend. ( By the way...I won't have an abortion worker for a friend either.)
(Please see my tag line.)