 Seriously, where are my taxpayer dollars going if my kids kindergarten teacher has to buy her own supplies ask us for donations But somehow we have fancy business districts coming up in the same areas where public schools are struggling the conversation comm Didn't investigation into 10,300 city budgets and whoa at two words for you tax Abatements it's a giveaway that cities do to attract economic development, but it ends up being that Corporations don't have to pay property tax, but who needs the money that comes from these property taxes public schools I'm paying higher property taxes for a good school district, but that's not where the money is going Kansas City, Missouri $1,700 per student diverted from public schools in East Baton Rouge That means a very classroom doesn't have a playground. They do have a cement slab for recess, but Exxon mobile has received nearly $600 million in tax abatements Atlanta public schools have a teacher shortage students without housing But somehow the city is giving nearly a hundred million dollars of tax abatements to corporations But here's the kicker the majority of these corporations will tell you they would have picked these locations anyway Even without these special tax breaks same thing is going on around the country probably where you live So to find out more go to the conversation comm