WolfishMusings
You’re actually wrong on all 3 points
1) while technically we can go to public schools, the fact is, it cost them between 8k and 15k per student per year. if we or any other group says we would like a better school system (forget religion) and it cost us less than what you’re paying now, so help us with 4k a year, per student per year, there is no good reason they can’t or don’t do so.
Yes there is a good reason… if it’s a religious school. It’s the State Constitution.
2) of course taxes are based on usage, if a municipality estimates there are 400 police calls a year, 400 calls for ambulance, and 400 fires per year, they know how much staff they need and that’s part of the taxes.
if the call volume doubled so would the staff and that part of the tax bill.
I meant on an individual level. You pay the same amount for the fire department no matter how many times you call them. You can’t say “I’d like a credit on my taxes because I didn’t call the fire department this year.” Likewise, you can’t say “I want a credit on my taxes because my kids don’t go to public school.”
3) why not? if i feel the public school system does a lousy job, or has some tough kids running around with weapons as long as the alternative is cheaper the state should have no problem with it.
Because the state is mandated to provide you with a school. They aren’t mandated to see to it that everyone gets the school they want.
as far as hatzoloh they do get money, not as much as they need, but they do get money
Do they? If so then I stand corrected there. But then again, there’s nothing in the state Constitution prohibiting it.
The Wolf