Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Giving or Taking

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

> We are non-parents, most of whose property taxes goes to pay for the
> local public school system. While I believe that having an educated
> populace is a benefit to the whole society, parents or not, it still
> irks me to have to pay ever-increasing taxes for other people's kids
> to go to school.

> ~ Molly Wms. (Maine)


So who paid taxes for *you* to go to school?

Everyone benefits from taxation, because none of us would voluntarily donate
that much money to the goverment, precisely because we don't agree with how
they spend it.

The beauty of cohousing is that everyone *does* have to agree how the money
is spent. While I understand your sympathy, applying examples from
representational government here is specious.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California

http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing/
tamgoddess [at] home.com

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