Comment by naveen99
school districts levy their own taxes independent of municipal or county governments. The reason we might not describe school boards as "the government" is… They don't have the power to levy taxes.
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school districts levy their own taxes independent of municipal or county governments. The reason we might not describe school boards as "the government" is… They don't have the power to levy taxes.
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In my district, direct democracy determines the level of tax. They can't, for example, pass a law that collects a tax on business income or whatever. They could probably collect usage fees of some sort. I'm thinking in school field trips and paid lunches. But truth be told I'm not intimately familiar with the legal or bureaucratic basis for those fees.