No More Taxes?

On Thursday night I read “The Lake Norman Citizen” and “The Herald Weekly”. I hope two article were written before the election. One was about the Davidson IB School being moved to Alexander middle and the other was about the libraries. Apparently people want more tax money to pay for the school to stay in Davidson and all of the libraries to stay open.

I am wondering which people are not getting it. I do not want to pay any more taxes. I understand that it would be nice for someone’s child to go to Davidson to school. I understand that having a library in each town is very convenient. It would be wonderful if this could all be magically done. It cannot.

I married work for many years and consequently do not have children. I do not even have nieces and nephews. If these wants for children keep up, I am thinking of starting a movement for single people to get a part of the child tax deductions on our income taxes.

Do not get me wrong. I pay for children to go to school and understand the need. I donate to my college alma mater so that children can go. I donate my time and some money to teach Junior Achievement in a 5th grade classroom. However, this “our children” and “it takes a village” has to stop. It is not “our children”. I should not have to keep paying for all of these items that I seldom or never get to use.

There is one more point to the libraries. This sounds like the old argument between Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville that erupted when the Y was built. It again erupted when the tiny library in each town was replaced with a regional that wound up in Huntersville because of where the land could be purchased. The argument is that each wants it, only one can have it, and the other 2 get mad when the one gets it. After the regional was built and the 3 town libraries were closed, Cornelius and Davidson erupted and got a town library in each town. Now we cannot pay.