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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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Re: other non-necessities of life said by kmoss:
I don't have children, but a nice hefty portion of my property tax goes toward my local school district. You think my neighbors with children should "band together" and "voluntarily pay extra" out of their own pocket to fund the school districts?
Absolutely. If you want to have kids, pay for them yourself. As a person with no kids, I am tired of paying higher and higher property taxes each year for schools I don't use. But realistically, there should be good schools available to all kids if the parents want to send them there. Should broadband deployment trump good education? If you keep taxes constant and then use tax money to pay for broadband, you will have to cut money from something else. You want your school system, police, fire, EMTs and other services to suffer? Then start wasting money on broadband and other boondoggles and it will happen.
said by kmoss:
pnh102 is just plain old cheap.
Yes I am. If you want everyone to have broadband, you can open your wallet, checkbook or whatever and give as much money to the effort to wire up all these places. I don't want to pay for it, so don't ask me to pay for it.
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kmoss
join:2002-09-14
Lisle, IL | Well I don't want to pay taxes to support the fire department, police department, and city upkeep so you can enjoy a high standard of living - so don't ask ME to pay for YOUR police force.
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by kmoss:
Well I don't want to pay taxes to support the fire department, police department, and city upkeep so you can enjoy a high standard of living - so don't ask ME to pay for YOUR police force.
Well than what do you want? Good schools, police, fire protection and city upkeep? Or high speed broadband, high crime, raging fires, and schools full of idiots? Its quite shortsighted of you to lump broadband into the same class/priority of services that you would put police, fire and education.
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