Is it fair for old people to complain about school taxes while they wait for their social security checks?

Question

Yeah the eldery paind into SS but I am a HS student and pay into it too and I will probobly never see a single SS check in my life.

Answer 1

No. They, for the most part want the government, which is the people to pay for their medications, so they should pay for the children. The kids are more innocent, than they. Kids also don't have as many boo-boo's, or rights.

Answer 2

Sure, it's fair.
They probably DO cancel each other out.
And the social security is THEIR money the government took and "saved" for them, so they would have it to live on in their old age.
What, did you think it was someone else's money? Where do you think social security comes from? Out of our paychecks, that's where.

I agree that it's society's obligation to make sure that all children are educated, hence school taxes. But what if it does cancel out the Social Security benefit? What do the old folks have to live on then?

If you could see the schools where I live, you'd understand why the taxes are sky-high - they're building Taj Majals for the kids to learn in! Football stadiums that hold 35,000 people! Every school MUST have a performing arts center now! High-dollar architects are consulted at every turn! That's what's out of control - school spending. Give us some basic schools, where kids go to LEARN, and we'll all have a little more money to live on.

Answer 3

Your makeing SS checks sound like low life welfare, surely that's not what your saying. For people that have paid SS all their life and not collect is nuts. How would you feel about putting money into an account for 50 years and then not collecting it? Nuts, huh? School taxes are paid in property taxes and yea they have every right to complain.

Answer 4

The "old people" paid FICA tax for the purpose of a retirement check. And being old, they do no longer have the capacity to earn their living.
The USA spends MORE to educate the young than any country in the world, but produces a much lower percentage of educated people than most western countries. Public education in this country went down in performance and up in cost right after the Federal Government got into the education business. Having the teachers unionized is another failing point. Unions have destroyed the initiative of millions of workers and now that includes the teachers in most schools.

Answer 5

Yes, because by the time elderly people are eligible for social security their children have already went through the school system. Why should they have to pay more taxes if their kids are graduated from even college? I think they should live tax free along with free medical care and free drug prescriptions once they get on social security and medicare.

Answer 6

The monies come from 2 different tax sources usually. Property tax usually pays for the schools and the only one who has a right to gripe about it is me and the other people who decide not to reproduce(thank you to those). So only non-procreating old people have the right to gripe. Everyone has to pay social security taxes so yeah their entitled to get some back.

Answer 7

Yes absolutely fair. In fact they're double taxed if you ask me. They paid into, and continue to pay into those school funding's via property taxes - just as they paid into social security for their retirement checks. Which pay for their property taxes again every year.

Just as you will pay for school taxes when you can afford a home of your own, and any other home you'll upgrade to in the future. Every time rent goes up on a renter - that is partial taxes towards school taxes via property taxes owner/landlord needs to collect from renter(s) and pay on property(s). Owner/landlord isn't going to pick up that tab for you.

And every time people vote a bond measure in - that takes more of your money out of your pocket. Especially when you own things.

Answer 8

I think it is fair for many when you consider that 1/2 of our property tax pays for education. Many could claim they have no children, why should they pay the tax when a person who sends 3 children to school doesn't even pat close to the amount it cost to educate their children.

It is also probably appropriate when we have an administration which is cutting their benefits, THAT THEY WORKED FOR, unlike school children!

The real issue is that many are on fixed incomes while their property taxes are sky-rocketing due to the feds trying to pass programs to the local level for funding.

It isn't a real great thing to watch, someone who has worked their entire life and own their homes outright, to have them foreclosed on because they can no longer pay the taxes!

Do you think it is fair for the young, who have just graduated, claim they should not have to fund schools either!

Answer 9

School funds come from property taxes.
If you are elderly those taxes can make it too expensive to keep your house. Those elderly people's kids are already grown and don't benefit from the schools that their property taxes fund.
Besides they are old, and are entitled to complain about whatever they want, it's a perk of old age.

Answer 10

Yes. I do both all of the time. I went to Catholic school. I never had children. I have been paying school taxes for 45 years and never got to use one dollar of that school tax money. I paid Social Security taxes since 1961. So I am entitled to SS benefits. What benefits have I received from school taxes? Zip, zero, nada, none.

Answer 11

Why single out "old" people? every person in the United States who has paid taxes has the ABSOLUTE right to express concern on how those taxes are spent.

Do you feel that only people with children in school are qualified to express an opinion on school taxes? What about grand parents? Don't they have the right to be concerned over the education of their grand children?