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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by 300bps on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:34AM (#32357637)
Unless a community is exceptionally rich or poor the people living there pay roughly what it costs +/- a few percent.

You’re not taking school taxes and costs into consideration.

In my school district, they spend $18,211 per student each year. Average school taxes per house are $8,100.

So a house with 1 child costs $10,111 per year. But the average house with children has 2.1 kids costing over $30,000 more than is paid in.

This is a very common problem and why development, especially of larger homes (with likely more children) is a net drain on the local tax base.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by throwaway0a5e on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:45AM (#32357797)
Schools are an infinite money pit. Their expenses grow to consume what is available. Likewise their expenses can be trimmed if the money is simply not available. As we've learned from pumping poorly performing schools full of money, expenditure is only loosely correlated with results.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by frumper on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:15PM (#32358220)
Sounds like your problem is children. Children need to be schooled whether they live in a large house or are crammed into a tiny condo.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by 300bps on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:34PM (#32359265)
Children need to be schooled whether they live in a large house or are crammed into a tiny condo.

True, but doesn't seem relevant to the discussion. GP said homes pay as much in taxes as they receive in services.

I disputed that by pointing out that even with very large homes, the people in the home receive far more educational services than their taxes pay for.

Your response to that is to say children need education?

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by frumper on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:58PM (#32359588)
Most of the suburbs, small cities and towns I've been in are predominately single family homes, yet they somehow all have schools paid for by taxes. People that tend to live in very large homes tend to pay disproportionately larger shares of taxes.
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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by 300bps on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:14PM (#32361452)
small cities and towns I've been in are predominately single family homes, yet they somehow all have schools paid for by taxes

That somehow is because they tax people that don't have kids in school. In fact, municipalities can nudge this.

Approve a 55+ community and it will give the community a net tax benefit. Same thing with a condo community. But approve a plan for a community of single family homes with 4+ bedrooms and you will have a huge drain on the tax base literally forever.

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