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Why do property taxes fund schools when only a subset of residents actually use said schools?
I send my children to private school and my elderly neighbors have no children in school. When we look at our property tax bills, we notice that 50% of the money we pay goes to the local county ...
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How would one justify public funding for non-STEM (or unprofitable) college majors to a non college educated taxpayer?
I'm curious what kind of arguments one could give to justify to someone without a college education that they would have to pay for someone else's education that they themselves never received.
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Is VAT on private school tuition fees against EU law?
According to a leaked source, the Labour government plans to introduce VAT on private school fees to pay for free meals for all primary school pupils. But isn’t this clearly illegal under EU law?
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Why did Democrats oppose Ted Cruz's provision to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling?
Senator Ted Cruz proposed an amendment to the recent tax reform bill to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling1, but the Democrats voted against it and it did not make it into the ...
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Why don't people pay some tax to the country where they were raised? [closed]
In most countries, public primary and secondary education is free.
If later the thus raised people leave the country to work abroad, then this is economically quite disadvantageous to the home country....
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