1. United States
2. Wisc.
3. Letter

Fund our schools AND cut our property taxes! I should not have to choose between losing my home (or not eating) due to my property taxes being obscenely high, and funding public education for all our students. All students deserve and require a solid education; our entire society depends upon it, our safety and future economy depends upon it. If youth are not educated they can't get jobs, they become  frustrated, unsatisfied, and disenfranchised. Uneducated and unemployed, they'll need money to survive, most will end up on public assistance, or turn to crime, or both. They'll be angry, frustrated, and have far too much time on their hands, while a lacking productive pursuits. Many will become parents before they can even support themselves, the downward spiral will pull their children down too. Their failure to succeed, when they weren't given a decent education as children-teens, isn't their fault, it's ours! Poverty levels will rise, and crime will be escalate: theft, drugs, violence, etc. I don't want to live in that society, do you?  Our society and country can't survive without our youth learning to use their talents, minds, hands, and their imaginations for progress, for our future. My property taxes are obscene and I get nothing for it; services are slow, ineffective, or completely absent, my neighborhood is not kept safe, yet the departments that target and fine owner occupants and residents are staffed. Why is that? It's time to rethink the unwise, and counterproductive ways our tax money has been spent. Regular citizens must get what we've paid for, and what we deserve; good schools are one of the most important services for maintaining a successful society. Our ridiculously inflated property taxes must be mitigate also.. It's up to you to find the unnecessary expenditures, over paying, embezzlement, or corruption that is robbing us of our money, services, and public schools. We deserve both, lower taxes and better schools. Eliminate vouchers! Vouchers rob public schools and the children who are most vulnerable, so the privileged can save money keeping their children sheltered, and separate.