When given the choice of having lower property taxes or more funding for public schools, most Wisconsin residents will go with the lower property taxes.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports the newly released Marquette University Law School Poll found 60% of respondents prioritizing lower property taxes while 40% said public school funding was more important to them. Poll director Charles Franklin said the 60% share voicing more concerned with property taxes than school funding was the highest since Marquette began its polling in 2013.
The poll also found 57% of respondents saying they were inclined to vote against a referendum to increase taxes for schools in their community, while 43% said they would support such a measure. Furthermore, 84% of respondents said they wanted to see a substantial share of the $2.5 billion state budget surplus of $2.5 billion devoted to property tax relief, while 16% said none of those funds should be used for lowering property taxes.
“It’s not as simple as just paying for schools from property taxes; the state has a role in that as well,” Franklin said. “But in the last eight years of divided government between a Republican legislature and a Democratic governor, we’ve seen very little ability of the two sides to find compromises that balance [Gov.] Evers’ commitment to funding the schools and Republicans commitment to holding down spending.”
Marquette surveyed 818 registered Wisconsin voters from Feb. 11-19 for the poll.
Because most adults have kids that finished school. There are more families with kids that finished school than there are with kids in or entering school. easy stuff. I’m collecting SS income. Love the fact that it’s not taxed. How do people feel receiving overtime pay… I’m sure they’re ecstatic!
Public education is a cash cow for corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. The vast majority of Americans, especially black parents want school choice but the Democrat party won’t allow one of their sources of income to be threatened. America is at war with the Democrat party again.
Polls are often quite wrong as an indicator of all people because Respondents who are willing to answer questions are likely a narrow group who are more likely to be those who feel strongly about NOT paying taxes, versus those who are moderate on tax issues. I never answer polls because I don’t know who the pollsters are, and I don’t know how the data will be used, perhaps to work against what I value.
I NEVER vote just for what is good for me, but a lot of people do. That is not to say that I will sacrifice everything on the altar of the greater society, but I do vote for what I feel is fair to all people. Education is important, but I do not like having to pay taxes that fund vouchers for schools with very limited topics that are geared to limit children’s understanding or even awareness of other issues and perspectives. Yet, that is how it has happened. I never had children, but I pay taxes for them, for their schools.
What angers me is that the Federal Child tax credit has NO limits on the number of children in a family. Having children is a person choice, and people do that for their own benefit, values, and beliefs, not for society. I don’t mind a tax credit for up to 2 children per couple, but beyond that, those parents are actually ADDING to the over-population crisis, which is driving up costs of everything, though there are also other reasons for rising costs.
The U.S. has 349 million people and still rising. The world has 8.3 Billion and still rising.
Despite slowing birth rates since 1964, the U.S. and the world are projected to have rising populations for several decades. Current projections are for the slowing annual growth rate to finally fall to ZERO in 2084 for the world population to top out at a jaw-dropping 10.3 Billion humans (25% more than today) and then very slowly decline to end this century (year 2100) at a still insane 10.2 Billion humans.
If you think competition for land, water, food, resources, etc. is going to get less with 2 Billion more humans ADDED, and global trade creating incentives for even low population countries to over-use their resources for products to be sold on the global market, then you are not aware of what has been happening.
We keep being told to have MORE kids and that will solve everything. But if young adults now cannot afford a home and many have to stay living with parents, then how is ADDED more humans to the competition over land and housing going to make that better.
It won’t. It’s a pyramid scheme.
If the world and the U.S. wanted a better future, a more affordable future, with more low cost and abundant resources, then fewer people in the future is the best way to do that.
But most people will not do the research to wake up. They’d rather be crammed into an over-populated world and get less and less in the future while paying more for it, and taxes is just one expense that will get worse.
Not everything is the fault of politicians. Personal family planning choices are a huge factor. That said, I would NOT take away tax benefits for kids already born. I would only change the tax system for children born 2 years after any new laws were passed that reduced benefits per child. I don’t want to harm existing families either. That costs me money, and I have no children by choice due to my awareness of the impacts of over-population since I was about 7 years old because I witness the last of open spaces and wildlife disappear before my eyes in the span of 15 years. My parents and others had 3 to 6 kids, and it was easy to connect the dots.