"We who pay get statements detailing it. Do you?" It's called a rent check, yes...lol...But seriously, of course taxes are different based on property values. So your neighbor would have an idea, but not a hard number as to what you or anyone else pays. Again, it's all subjective.

The only hard numbers we (you, me, everyone) gets in in the final tally. You get an average per person number based on county, state, feds data. The census for example is another clump of averages.

Schools are way more expensive to run this day in age. The technology needed is an astronomical budget increase over pencils and books.

I have lots of ideas to lower building and maintenance costs. But it takes an upfront investment and nobody wants to pay the bill on anything more than portables to fill up the playground.

Meanwhile, colleges can't build fast enough.