text: I paid $3,500 in property taxes last year to fund schools that I don't even have kids in.  $40,000 in 10 years.  My neighbors all paid even more.
  
  How much did the locals in these two villages pay towards their schools?
  
  The answer is, of course, ZERO.  Nada.  Zilch.  Nothing.
  
  Hard to feel sorry for them.