pancakes3 wrote:daoneandonly wrote:Doug_Blew wrote:
Current unemployment is 3.7%. Lots of people working now.
Indeed, which means 96.3% of people can afford contraception, so we can defund PP. 96.3% of ppl can pay their own way for certain things the government does not have to continually support. I got a lecture about how unfair the Senate is because it goes by land mass and not population, particularly related to Cali, well this is majority too.
popular rule is predicated on enacting what the majority of what people *want* and not *are*
someone can be able to afford a good/service and still believe that it is the role of the government to provide it - like k12 education.
yeah...sorry...this is a fallacy...the federal government does NOT provide K-12 education. The federal governement was not even involved in the process until equal rights amendments.
Your state governement provides these services and does so by allowing your local government to enact real estate taxes.
In chicagoland the typical average real estate taxes are about $11,000 per household. Wow!! $11 effing grand!!
Now let's do some math, shall we? Americans are now having 1.2 children per family. Many families are choosing to NOT have children.
1. 55-95% of your local real estate property taxes go directly to the school district!! If your roads are in good condition and there is minimal crime and need for fire protection...that number will hit 95%. If there is high crime and infrastructure is crumbling then about 55% goes to the school.
Private school in chicago costs about $2500 per child in k-8.
$13,000 per year in 9-12.
So really??? The government aint providing jack shxt!!!! You are!!! Your local home owners and renters end up paying the property tax and those taxes get managed by the local government to provide the infrastucture and the human recourses based on the revenue it receives.
I'll tell you what: ...
1. fire ever damn cop and firefighter in town except 4 cops and 2 fire fighters.
2. Let's go back to local volunteer fire fighters!! Something local business owners and church members will gladly do to serve their community.
3. Lets deputize up to 1000 local residents with the best grades, backgrounds, and lack of "trouble or problems in every town and deputies if needed. (prior military would be a huge plus)
4. Get everyone who wants it a conceal and carry.
5. Give everyone 90% of their property tax money back!!! And open up a bunch of private schools to compete against each other and will provide a way better education.
And dont even tell me that public schools are better. I went to both private and public. It aint effing close!! I'll hire a kid that went to private schools over public 8 days a week and twice on Sunday. This aint even close! ONly issue is you cant keep a kid that went to private school. They're going places.
The public school kids would be far better off with a voucher for a private school.
Now lets look at public school costs.
Just the costs of their retirements are bankrupting local governments. And they are very good at their job. At all. Those kids dont know shxt!! <--which is why they need "free" college!! Cuz they didn't learn shxt in public grade school and public high school.
like i said, its a full rebuild.
