post #100! all should pay school taxes. why.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120217145743.htm

D - seniors arguing they should not pay for public education is about as selfish as working age citizens arguing they should not contribute to senior access.


While many communities offer various school-tax exemptions, those who don't have children in school routinely oppose paying any school taxes, Neal said. In Michigan, nearly half of the 505 school bond elections between 2000 and 2005 failed, according to a March 2010 study in the journal Educational Policy...


The researchers found a strong relationship between those who were satisfied with their communities and quality schools. This finding was not affected by gender, age, race, employment status or whether the participant owned or rented a home or had children in school.

"We found that having quality public schools makes people more satisfied with their community regardless of whether they had kids in the schools or not," Neal said.

Neal said this is likely due to two major reasons:

Public schools offer amenities to the entire community such as adult education courses, after-hours computer labs, workout facilities, auditorium space for churches and other groups, and more.
Public schools have the more indirect benefit of promoting relationships among neighborhood residents. These relationships lead to issues getting solved -- such as broken streetlights, unplowed streets or crime problems -- that benefit everyone.






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D - finally figuring out the revised Google blog interface.
- 'paste as plain text' avoids format issues
- submit images in the reverse order you desire to see them listed
- still no LJ-style way to embed images within the text
- not sure how to write a blog title that fits on 1 line.
There are many sad oversights in the blog design.
The kingdom was lost for lack of a nail.