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I don’t know about NJ, but in MA public transportation is partially funded by property taxes. Fares provide less than 1/3 of the operating costs. Subsidies also come from income taxes and sales taxes, neither of which the school pays. It provides a benefit to the school by being available for students and employees, shouldn’t the school pay their fair share like all non-nonprofits?
Of course, but businesses and other types of real estate pay property taxes as well which also go to fund the schools, as do people without kids, and they gain no direct benefit from public schools because they don’t have kids attending them. Why should their tax burden be increased just because something is a non-profit? Universities certainly benefit indirectly from public schools, just like businesses, that’s where their workers and customers come from.
That hospital is almost certainly a non-profit, which means it is being subsidized by all the taxpayers.</p>