Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Different?

I keep hearing the ''empty nester's'' sing the song of they don't have the money to support schools. You live in one of the fastest growing districts in the state - that's probably not a good long term strategy if that's the case.

I'm don't like the MEDICARE line on my pay stub that shows I pay thousands of dollars a year to an agency I know as I retire the program will be bust. I'd much prefer to have those dollars not support seniors but support schools.

Seniors want us to take care of our own & take care of them too. And by the way lets exclude then from any taxes they need to pay so they can continue to vote no for kids.

Sorry - your song is tired. I think a community should be taking care of both ends the young & the elderly but I'm sick of the whining about why it's NOT important to build schools and where's my handout at the same time. These same people packed a meeting about WalMart saying how it would change our community. Don't you think destroying the school system will do the same? WalMart will have a much smaller if any effect on property values than a bad school system.

Pickerington needs to get its priorities straight.

Good point

You raise a good point -- why should voters that do not have to deal with the results of their vote be able to impose taxes on those of us that do? Income taxes we all pay, sales taxes as well. Property taxes though, are paid only by property owners yet non-property owners can vote to raise them. (Ignoring the fact that eventually renters pay those taxes through higher rents if the market permits it.) This issue was dealt with decades ago though, and all voters have their say on all issues regardless of whether or not they actuallt pay for the resulting tax or pass it on to someone else.

We've moving more and more to a point where the vast majority of the voters pay smaller and smaller percentages of the taxes. They have no incentive to limit government's take of the income since they don't pay the tax bill. Targeting non-taxpaying students of voting age to generate the necessary votes to pass the levy is only one more example of this problem.

By Old and Lovin It

good point?

it's just the way it is... i live in pickerington but work in Columbus -- I don't get to vote on anything in Columbus (city council, mayor, etc) that will impact my taxes but I have to pay income tax to Columbus

Is that fair? Taxation without representation... sounds like a tea party to me.

Different?

I keep hearing the ''empty nester's'' sing the song of they don't have the money to support schools. You live in one of the fastest growing districts in the state - that's probably not a good long term strategy if that's the case.

I'm don't like the MEDICARE line on my pay stub that shows I pay thousands of dollars a year to an agency I know as I retire the program will be bust. I'd much prefer to have those dollars not support seniors but support schools.

Seniors want us to take care of our own & take care of them too. And by the way lets exclude then from any taxes they need to pay so they can continue to vote no for kids.

Sorry - your song is tired. I think a community should be taking care of both ends the young & the elderly but I'm sick of the whining about why it's NOT important to build schools and where's my handout at the same time. These same people packed a meeting about WalMart saying how it would change our community. Don't you think destroying the school system will do the same? WalMart will have a much smaller if any effect on property values than a bad school system.

Pickerington needs to get its priorities straight.