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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
I'm for user-based taxation too thus schools should be funded by parents not property owners... bwahahahahaha!!!  |
This is a sore point for me, not only do I 100% fund my own child's education, she is homeschooled by my stay at home wife who quit her double minimum wage full time job to do it. Then our single income of about $65k/yr working 50hrs/week puts us in a fully paying, zero receiving tax bracket that gets pay for teachers to make more then me and take 3 mo this off in the summer.
I actually work for the Post Office which as bad as it is, is the best example of a federal government service you will find. It's authorized by direct language in the constitution, it receives no money other then the postage it sells, the postage rates are not based on income but only on how much you use the service. If you don't want to use it, it costs you nothing. They do get a small amount from the general budget to reimburse some of the free services we are required by congress to perform. The losses of late are not really losses but results of long term budget shenanigans by congress. We may someday be dead but if we were unleashed we could enter a new age of online buying and shipping that may make us more valuable then ever. Unless you are a little high profit niche store we and Amazon put out of business.