Many of the newer immigrants are renters not paying property taxes, thus not helping fund the school costs. It’s all being shouldered on property owners, many of whom don’t even have kids in school anymore. The renter-versus-homeowner topic related to property taxes is an important one in understanding what’s happening, certainly in Hazleton.”
Wait, doesn’t the owner, who is profiting from the renters, pay property taxes? And educating children is the job of the community, not just the parents of public school children. Is she going to object next to people under 65 paying social security taxes? She already objects to the cap being raised on the amount of income subjected to the tax, which is the simplest way to make the system more secure. So she wants income over $128K a year to continue to be exempt from Social Security taxes. Wait, doesn’t that mean that the more you earn, the lower your effective SS tax rate is. Who benefits from that?
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