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Originally Posted by fotze
I didn't know that. I don't remember it saying you must pledge to the catholics side
I am baptised and all that jazz and I didn't pledge my taxes to the catholic system. My kid isn't/won't be baptised so he couldn't go to a catholic school if we wanted so they can lick sac if they want my tax money.
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I'm basing this on my personal experiences. Each of the three times I've bought a house (twice in Calgary and once in Drumheller) I've had to declare Catholic or public school support, and I've been instructed each time that if I'm Catholic my education taxes by default have to go to the Catholic system. I could have taken the easy road and just lied up front, but this is a touchy issue with me so I've debated the issue each time. Once I tell them my reasons they have been accommodating and turned a blind eye to my false declaration, but it's stupid that it should be that way to start with. It falsely pads the tax support of the Catholic system, and in turn depletes funding that should be going to the public side. Not to mention that it's an unacceptable intrusion of church on state in my books. Perhaps things are different now ... I haven't bought property in the last seven years so they could have changed the rule in the interim. But throughout the 1980s and up until 2000 that is what I encountered.