Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Giving or Taking

[Molly Williams (mmw]

Liz,

I don't see how my arguments are specious. As I understood the
original question, it was about whether other people feel one way
when they give by choice and another way when they feel forced to
give. My examples were all relevant to this question. It was not a
question of child care or school taxes, as the original poster made
clear.

~ Molly Wms.


Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:
> 
> > 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
>
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