Why Are Senior Citizens Citizens Paying School Taxes?
By deemazing
@deemazing (395)
United States
August 1, 2008 1:24am CST
I Feel senior citizens paying school taxes is unfair.They paid their share when their children were in school.It's taxation without representation and its against the law! I have witnessed many families in apartments that have school age children who pay no school taxes.Yet Seniors who are on fixed incomes must still pay school taxes,its not right and something needs to be done to change it.Its a sad day when a senior has to lose their home because of failure to pay school taxes.Hello...their children are grown adults with families of their own,wheres the reason for paying these taxes?Senior Citizend paid their share of school taxes when their children were in school,its the younger generations turn to pick up the slack.Only the wisdom and tenacity of seniors who learned how to live on a budget is what keeps them surviving month to month.This taxation is wrong and unlawful and needs to be stopped...time to do whats right! vhd2008
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3 responses
@Kellyann627 (342)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I completly agree with you. It's very unfair to senior citizens to have to pay school taxes. They aren't using the school, and their children are grown. Half of the time they have to pay alot hundreds of dollars on presciption mediation and they half to make their set income stretch. I have always that was unfair too. We should try to help eldery people who cannot afford their bills, not charge them for schools they don't use.
Take care!
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
1 Aug 08
I have to disagree, I have read other responses and mine falls in line. I think that everyone benefits from higher class education (cute pun, eh?) and if we were to start picking and choosing what taxes we pay we would be headed down a slippery slope.
Great post, whoever is responsible!
:-)
@penny64 (1106)
• Australia
1 Aug 08
I'm not sure how the school taxes work in the US. However, I don't think that taxes should only be paid by people who are actually using a particular service ... here, for example, by parents of children at school. Otherwise there would be no services for people without money - no unemployment benefits or medical assistance or old age pension. My taxes pay for some services that I do use, and some services that I never use. Overall, it balances out over a lifetime, and people who really need help do get benefits in most cases. If the school tax to which you refer is income assessed, then I don't think it is a problem. But, as I said, I'm not familiar with the US system, so I'm looking at it from an Australian point of view. Our taxes here pay for a LOT of services for seniors.
