- What is the purpose of education?
- How would you describe an educated person?
- What is a bond election?
- Who calls bond elections?
- When are bond elections held?
- Who can vote in a bond election?
- What is the purpose of a bond election?
- Who authorizes the issue of bonds?
- Who buys bonds?
- How are bonds repaid?
- How do bond sales affect property tax rates?
- What is a property tax rate?
- What is an effective property tax rate?
- What is the property tax rate based upon?
- Who establishes the appraised value of taxable real estate?
- Who pays property taxes?
- What percentage of monthly property taxes paid by your parent(s)/guardian is for public debt service?
- How do renters pay property taxes?
- What is the impact of property taxes on retailers? How do they pass on their costs?
- Who owns the debt (bonds) which must be repaid with property taxes?
- What are the consequences for failure to pay property taxes?
- What are the M&O and I&S portions of budgets?
- If given a choice between giving up a cellular data plan (or even a smartphone altogether) or voting for a bond proposal that would increase your parent’s property taxes (or rent) on a pro-rated monthly amount equal to the amount of that cellular data plan, what would you choose?
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