For me, because humans have the tendency to be unique, I believe they also have a tendency to like and dislike different things.

This is true of how people flirt/play with each other as well. For example, I use the words hon and sweety ALOT. It is just a harmless habit that I picked up from a young age, that I enjoyed being on the receiving end of. But, occasionally, someone will make it known that they do not like being referred to in that manner, and I do my best to stop(it is a habit), but how can I be accountable to their discomfort before I know they are uncomfortable?

Likewise, some people enjoy the attention of a 'cat call', some people enjoy being fondled or touched .... etc... etc.... but a person does not know if another person is NOT enjoying their advance UNTIL that person says so.

So this newest media trend around people coming forward to tell about singular incidents of 'harassment' by men of power, and usually incidents that allegedly happened decades ago, is bonkers ... imho.

Firstly, because it results in that person being socially outcast as 'guilty until proven innocent'

and

Secondly, because most people I know are a bit different/more matured in their 50s and onward, than they were in their 20s. Penalizing near senior citizens for having basically made someone uncomfortable in their 20s is insane. I know the accusers are getting plenty of attention and sympathy, but my sympathy is going out to these men who have not been proven to have done anything illegal at all.

I liken it to how a cop can just claim 'fear' to justify taking a life. That people can just claim singular incidents of 'harassment' to justify taking a career is troubling to me ... especially having been raised with brothers and a Father whom I love very much. I cant imagine what the families of the accused are going through.

What I see is flawed as far as school taxes is my kids have been out of school for 15 years but I still have to pay school taxes..

Not really fair to those aging and still paying school taxes..

And yet those that rent do not pay school taxes go figure....

then how does fla fill their state and local budgets? all through income and sales tax?

I don't know about Cali but, here in Texas school taxes are paid
separate from state and local. It is always the highest local tax
that I pay. School budgets here increase every year and is the
largest employer in the city. It's a multi-million dollar deal.

Americans don't have accents.
You mistake us for Aussies.

Do they separate 'school' taxes from taxes in general come tax time?

taxes go to plenty of things not everyone uses, its too much paperwork and manpower to assign individual tax bills based upon individual usage of public resources.

I always believed we invest in children not because of our biological connection but because of our national legacy, those children potentially become future leaders and innovators that benefit even the childless, making it an investment even the childless should fee responsible to making.

Done that before and will do it again, but it sux. And hurts.

I AM from her country. Good thing I moved to Canada otherwise I would be expected to be dead soon too huh?

76 is not THAT old to die, you know. Unless of course, he falls off the stairs while stabbing himself and then shooting his head off after drinking poison by accident. Is that the plan?