Fernandes elaborated on-camera about his reasons, declaring that he regarded money taken for school taxes as "stolen." "We homeschool our kids, so we don’t even use the public school system, yet I’m being forced to pay all this money into a public school system that I don’t use, don’t want, don’t need. And I don’t think that’s really either fair, just or even ethical," he said. "It would be the equivalent if McDonald’s were to force vegetarians to pay for their cheeseburgers," he said. "I’m a big proponent of education," he said, but clarified by saying, "Education can be provided more efficiently in a free market."
"You can’t play the game of politics," he said. "This isn’t about politics. This is about morality. This is about ethics. so I’m not interested in going to a school board and asking them for more of my money."
"I hope that everybody out there that’s listening to this, everybody out there that sees this, they start thinking about things. Let’s have a conversation," Fernandes said, who again said schools would be better if they fell under a true free-market system. "I hear people who have kids in the school system complaining all the time. And they get nowhere. Because there’s no incentive for them to provide better service."
The video is almost fourteen minutes long, but it goes quickly. You will probably start cheering for the guy. Everything he says is spot on, almost like he lives in Mt. Lebanon and has a school board and administration just like ours. We work hard for our money and if we don't pay our taxes, they take our home. There is no accountability. We can have a superintendent block us from social media if he doesn't like us, a school board ignore our emails or force us to file Right To Knows for public information, a finance director who buries budgets, school board directors who stick us with renovation projects without a referendum, and for all that foreclose on our homes if we don't pay for it all. I LOVE this guy!!!
