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Plenty of people who have had children and raised them are against paying school taxes after their kids leave school. The number of times I have heard Grand parents talk about unfair it is that they have to pay taxes on schools is insane. Source: lived in a community where the average age was 72.
The empathy deficit in this country is what's killing us all.
This comment is the one we should be talking about. We all lack empathy, at least politically and socially.
It's the sickness we should be treating, instead of constantly triaging all the symptoms.