This AX MI TAX thing sounds like a really bad idea but I can see it passing if it gets on the ballot.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Oh, dear lord.

I guess those opposed to the property tax have never have children. Or have no clue that a decently educated younger generation is necessary for, well for instance well trained health care providers to take care of them in old age.

We all need to pay for public education whether or not we currently have or have ever had kids in public schools. The childless, those who chose private or secular education cannot be exempt.

I chose to send my sons to a secular private school because my older son was being bullied in the public school. I could afford the change, for which I am very grateful, but I realized that if necessary I could have gone to work cleaning houses -- as one other mother I knew there had done -- to pay for their school. The immense improvement in my older son's life at this new school, plus the amazing academics, had us switch younger son the next semester.

I'd occasionally get into conversations with other moms in the school parking lot, and many of them expressed resentment at paying school taxes. I always told them they were wrong, and why. Again, public schools depend on all of us. Heck, I currently live in a state where I never had kids attend school, and I have zero problem with paying school taxes here.