WHY THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE KILLING US DO NOT NEED TO BE SO HIGH
We’re all concerned about the things happening to our young people, but we all have to be concerned about ourselves and our families too! Many are paying high costs for private schools for their children to get away from the public schools, but these people must pay high property taxes too, largely to support schools their children do not attend. Where is this all going with these exorbitant property taxes—don’t think for a minute that we’re going to get any relief without doing something about the two things I brought up before (teachers’-labor-union and federal involvement) because it’s just a fact borne out by the past that the worse the schools get, the more money that’s poured into them. The money goes to the bureaucrats not really to the children other than a very small percentage. That’s what Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, said when he gave up trying to help the schools. And the teachers’ labor unions have a vested interest in rising teachers’ salaries because the dues paid are a fixed percentage of teachers’ salaries, thus adding more money to union coffers. With a membership of 2.7 million (3.2 million since 9/1/06 when the NEA merged with the AFT in New York state). The National Education Assn takes in $95 million just in NJ annually since most teachers pay $588-800 in dues per year, and the outlook is for more and more teachers with so many pupils being assigned to special classes because of supposed handicaps and attendance rising with more and more illegals being schooled! (Total National Education Assn receipts for period 9/30/91-8/31/92 were $238,240,917.) Is it any surprise that the teachers’ labor unions support illegal immigration wholeheartedly! In looking at the property taxes below, remember the two main causes are the teachers’ labor unions and federal involvement in education, which is unconstitutional:
Property tax comparisons in the Mercer County area of New Jersey: (The unions came in in 1961.) 17 Laning Ave., Pennington, 1964 - $600.00 2006 - $12,500.00
141 So. Main St., Pennington, 1973 - $900.00 2006 - $12,500.00
25 Eglantine Ave., Pennington, 1994 - $4,500.00 2006 - $10,200
Hopewell Township in NJ, 1996 - $800.00 2006 - $7,500.00
66 Bogart Court, Princeton, NJ, 1994 -$45,000.00 2005 - $58,016.00
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326 Bergen St., Hamilton, 1970 - $456.59; 1975 - $665.85; 1976 - $762.45: 1980 - $838.40; 2006 - $3,522.60
45 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, 1970 - $2,556.12; 1975 - $3,305.82; 1976 - $3,765.00, 1980 - $5,257.50; 2006 - $34,549.47