What about my child’s education? We must support the schools!

Did you know that currently only 10% of school funding is paid for via your property taxes? That is a paltry $2.5 billion out of a $25 billion budget! That means that only 6 mills of your property tax dollars goes to actual education purposes. The rest of the millages are applied towards football stadiums, baseball fields, jumbotrons, and many other non-educational expenditures.

Now, we’re not saying that those things aren’t important, but we are saying that there is plenty to go around and when Michigan citizens have no property taxes weighing them and their families down, there is more to spend via community funding. Furthermore, the businesses in your community, after having been freed from their own property taxes, are going to have more to use to step up and support the extracurricular activities of the schools within your area.