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Old 01-24-2013, 05:50 PM
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Your daughter in Bushnell may have children in school. Or may benefit from "the system" in some other way. I personally don't mind paying school taxes one bit. In our retirement community we all pay taxes to support the Florida school system, and most of us don't have children in school. Taxes go into a big pot and then the money is doled out in appropriate ways (we hope).
Property taxes for schools are a totally different animal. When you take sales tax money to support something like entertainment on the squares, that is ridiculous. Come on, really, if we can't afford to pay for our own music, should others....