| nordlead said: No, I have never been in a public school ever, I was homeschooled. My parents paid taxes even though we never received a penny for it, and my kids will also be homeschooled. Hopefully my grandkids will be homeschooled since I think homeschooling is great. So that will be ~60 years of taxes just from me (or ~240k) that I never get a peny out of for any of my family in either direction. Also, our taxes aren't like VAT. VAT is included in the sticker price. So if you buy a 20GBP item, then at the register it is 20GBP. If you buy a $20 item in the US then at the register it is $21.65. (tax varies by area) While most the time I don't care about the sales tax, sometimes you really have to sit down and figure out if you can afford it due to the taxes. |
holy shit, i see now why you're so against it. o.0
homeschooling isn't all that common here, most people are state-schoolies. and that VAT thing must be confusing 
thank you for taking the time to clarify everything, i really am ignorant of the US way of things.
