re: #560 sattv4u2

Then you must be 100% in favor of me witholding the portion of my property taxes that go to the public schools, taking that money for me to spend on a private and/ or religious school of my choice for my child

There is that false analogy again, the same one used by the Missouri school that pulled the evolution t-shirts from their band. Secular does not mean anti-religious. The absence of religion is not an attack on religion.

By that logic can someone who is against the war begin withholding their taxes that go to pay for the military? Or someone who opposes medicine withhold their taxes that go towards medicare? Allowing citizens to pick and choose which programs they wish to pay taxes to fund would be an unmitigated disaster.

You can choose to pull your child from public school and teach them whatever you want. But that doesn’t mean you are entitled to not pay the taxes that go towards funding it. Just as someone who doesn’t have any kids doesn’t get to lessen their property taxes because they aren’t sending any kids to school.