If you have to pay a property tax every year, and the government can take your house and land away if you don’t pay it, it’s not just hyperbole to say that you’ll never really own your house. From Mollie Engelhardt at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Texas is famous for its wide-open land, its independence, and its promise of freedom. Yet the truth is that Texans pay some of the highest property tax rates in the country. The state itself doesn’t collect property tax, but local governments make up for it many times over. Even with agricultural and wildlife exemptions, the real burden still falls on commercial buildings, apartment complexes, and single-family homes—the very places where most people live and work.
Every year, I write a check for twenty-four thousand dollars in property taxes. In Texas, over half of that typically goes toward public education—sometimes up to 70 percent in certain counties. The irony is that none of it goes toward educating my own children.
I homeschool my kids. On our farm, we built a small barn with electricity, air conditioning, and a nearby restroom.
My husband and I teach our children farming, entrepreneurship, and money management. We hire a teacher three days a week for reading, writing, and math, and a tutor for additional help with reading.
We pay entirely out of pocket for all of it. Yet each year, I’m still forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars to fund a system I fundamentally disagree with.
I don’t believe the public school system nurtures creativity, curiosity, or courage. It creates workers, not thinkers. It rewards compliance, not conviction.
Paying more in a school zone is interesting as the children are stupider than ever.
Easier to control that way.
Kids is a term applying to goats.