Only 60%? In the poor county I live-in, 64.4% of my property taxes go to pay for education. I paid it last week, and still have the receipt with the exact amount on it in my wallet. I do about 250 tax returns per year, and I see more people than not (most are in my age group, so they're retired) that pay more in property taxes, of which most goes to schools, than they pay in state or federal income taxes. Even if you have no income, like some of them do, you still have to pay for the public schools. Strange that we collect money to pay for education so differently than we do for many other government provided services.
Of course, I'll complain about the amount and who is shouldering the burden, but I still know that education is a right. For those of you who, including many of my coworkers, who think education should only be allowed for those who can pay, imagine how stupid "the masses" would be then. We'd have a generation of Democrats for sure.z