While this may be good, it can also be bad for people who live in my community. On Long Island in NY, our property taxes are sky high. The average blue collar middle class working family living in a small home with no basement pays an average of $12,000-$14,000 in property taxes. Larger houses generally pay about $16,000-$20,000 per year. Our houses are not mansions and most people are struggling as it is.
Approximately $7,000-$8,000 of those taxes go to public school teachers. In my school the phys ed teachers even make between $100-120,000 a year which is ridiculous! What happens when the federal funding that pays these teachers stops? They still get a paycheck whether 10 or 30 kids are in each class. With less funding, they are going to have to pay these teachers the same salary no matter what as they are tenured and in a union. They will probably have to raise our property taxes to double to still pay these same teacher's salaries now that the government funding will be stopped.
Home owners across Long Island struggle to pay these property taxes as they are. This might get ugly here on Long Island.
While this may be good, it can also be bad for people who live in my community. On Long Island in NY, our property taxes are sky high. The average blue collar middle class working family living in a small home with no basement pays an average of $12,000-$14,000 in property taxes. Larger houses generally pay about $16,000-$20,000 per year. Our houses are not mansions and most people are struggling as it is.
Approximately $7,000-$8,000 of those taxes go to public school teachers. In my school the phys ed teachers even make between $100-120,000 a year which is ridiculous! What happens when the federal funding that pays these teachers stops? They still get a paycheck whether 10 or 30 kids are in each class. With less funding, they are going to have to pay these teachers the same salary no matter what as they are tenured and in a union. They will probably have to raise our property taxes to double to still pay these same teacher's salaries now that the government funding will be stopped.
Home owners across Long Island struggle to pay these property taxes as they are. This might get ugly here on Long Island.