The problem with voting to fund schools is it means voting to raise your own property taxes. This, when property taxes have skyrocketed in response to the housing market in the last 4 years. A relative had theirs go up from $2k to $3.8k since purchasing this decade. That is a lot, for working class. The same as a $150/mo rent increase in a situation that’s supposed to be escaping rent. And it goes up every year.
Let’s be real about home ownership, most of working class that has a house still on mortgage is house poor. Meaning, they manage to pay the mortgage but can’t afford shit. Rice, beans, eggs. Rent is a max payment per month, mortgage is a minimum payment per month. Stuff breaks, problems happen, and maintenance to prevent more problems from starting is a constant money siphon.
The fact that state and local lawmakers choose to fund schools on property tax initiatives is fucked up. The last couple in my area failed. Why? Everyone is already squeezed to death financially.
For schools to be funded, lawmakers need to find another way. How are they funding everything else? Do that.
Ok, I’m confused. if schools are funded by property taxes, wouldn’t they be more funded now because the property taxes are higher? Because the property taxes are increasing because the value of the house is increasing right? That doesn’t increase the expenses, all the money should be way more than what it used to goto school in the past
The USA funds schools municipally, while most other countries fund it federally or state/provincially. Problem with municipalities is that they’re too small to issue bonds so their only way to raise money is through property taxes.
USA deliberately did it this way so that they could keep black people in poverty. They red lined them into low property value areas and then made them fund their own schools. That’s why every time black communities actually built wealth they were literally bombed and burned to the ground.
Schools are funded by property taxes, but property taxes aren’t only used for property taxes, they get used for all sorts of things. Hell, my former state at one point added a certain amount from the lottery to the school funding, then promptly took away that much from property tax funding to pay for some other dumb thing.
The problem with voting to fund schools is it means voting to raise your own property taxes. This, when property taxes have skyrocketed in response to the housing market in the last 4 years. A relative had theirs go up from $2k to $3.8k since purchasing this decade. That is a lot, for working class. The same as a $150/mo rent increase in a situation that’s supposed to be escaping rent. And it goes up every year.
Let’s be real about home ownership, most of working class that has a house still on mortgage is house poor. Meaning, they manage to pay the mortgage but can’t afford shit. Rice, beans, eggs. Rent is a max payment per month, mortgage is a minimum payment per month. Stuff breaks, problems happen, and maintenance to prevent more problems from starting is a constant money siphon.
The fact that state and local lawmakers choose to fund schools on property tax initiatives is fucked up. The last couple in my area failed. Why? Everyone is already squeezed to death financially.
For schools to be funded, lawmakers need to find another way. How are they funding everything else? Do that.
Ok, I’m confused. if schools are funded by property taxes, wouldn’t they be more funded now because the property taxes are higher? Because the property taxes are increasing because the value of the house is increasing right? That doesn’t increase the expenses, all the money should be way more than what it used to goto school in the past
The USA funds schools municipally, while most other countries fund it federally or state/provincially. Problem with municipalities is that they’re too small to issue bonds so their only way to raise money is through property taxes.
USA deliberately did it this way so that they could keep black people in poverty. They red lined them into low property value areas and then made them fund their own schools. That’s why every time black communities actually built wealth they were literally bombed and burned to the ground.
In today’s episode of Every goddamn Thing in the US Has Explicitly Racist Origins.
So racist Hitler literally tried to model his 3rd Reich after segregationist USA.
Schools are funded by property taxes, but property taxes aren’t only used for property taxes, they get used for all sorts of things. Hell, my former state at one point added a certain amount from the lottery to the school funding, then promptly took away that much from property tax funding to pay for some other dumb thing.
Yes, they also fund the emergency medical services. (911 and ambulance kits).
You property taxed when you meant to school, but I gotcha
I used the property tax to destroy the property tax 🫰