Taxes

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Good grief. Don't you people have schools and roads to fund? My property tax this year will be over $6000, and that is considered cheap for the area! And my lot is tiny- barely a third of an acre. Supposedly it costs each child attending the local public school system something like $12,000/year, which is basically like a university education. What is all this money being spent on? Ipads? What happened to just teaching reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic? Sure, I am all for increasing education spending if there was actually something to show for it. But these kids are just as smart/dumb as ever, despite the parabolic increase in spending over the past decade. It's seriously time to stop spending money on polo, swimming pools and golf.

but that's one of the pluses of this county I live in...Low taxes (Property and county, which I think is 4%)

Roads were fixed (And maintained) a long time ago by "Tribal DOT's", the schools here are fine because they focus on education moreso than 'making sure each student has a PC to do their work upon' crap like larger districts do these days (They actually do better in statewide testing than the schools in the large Oklahoma metros of Tulsa & OKC), so I can't honestly say where my $12.84 went to.



Forgot to add, when Oklahoma 'legalized' gambling (Including horse racing, casinos & lotteries) a percentage of money made by betting on horses, the sell of lottery tickets and profits made by "Tribal Casinos" goes straight to public education. In the past 5 years there were more "tribal casinos" built in this area I live in than probably out West (Including the new Kiowa Casino located only 1 mile on highway 9 from where Debbie passed from this existence from...Which I find kinda humourous, I guess her spirit can have someplace 'fun' to haunt.)