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Parents aren't the only ones paying property taxes.  Everyone does.  I propose if you choose to have children, you just pay a little more, that's all.   Aren't they worth a couple of hundred dollars per child per year for a middle class family?   

Oh, and what about that surcharge for NOT riding the bus...

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I live next door to Stephenson Grade School and the number of parents who drive their children to and from school is astonishing.  These are SUV-driving, obviously-well off folks.  The school buses only have about 10-15 kids on them.   It's a regular traffic jam in our otherwise quiet neighborhood, and these folks are not polite about letting the residents into traffic.   I have suggested car pools, walking to school, and riding the bus, but parents there have all kinds of excuses.

Basis this well-off contingent, isn't it time we thought about charging people (on a sliding scale based on income) for their children to attend school?    Of course, charging elementary school parents to drop their kids off at school would net a hefty influx of cash to schools too.   

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