Education

*you* don't support them & your child doesn't attend them.

Not to mention that rather than staying in the community, those dollars often leave & go to corporate HQ in another community, state, or even another country.

As charters expand & big corporations take more of the pie through consolidation (which *will* happen, as it happens in *every* deregulated market), larger and larger percents of local taxes will leave communities rather than being recylced into the pockets of local businesses and local people.

This should be enough for right & left to make common cause against charters, because what we're looking at is a modern form of colonialism -- and colonialism IMPOVERISHES localities.