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Woman who voted for every Austin, TX tax increase discovers that now she can’t afford to live there
Instapundit citing American-Statesman ^ | June 4, 2014

Posted on 06/05/2014 12:05:30 PM PDT by Mount Athos

“I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; schadenfreude
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1 posted on 06/05/2014 12:05:30 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

I have voted for every...

Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.

That someone is you, the voter.


2 posted on 06/05/2014 12:07:39 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Mount Athos
No brains at all, some of them.

Just bits of gray fluff, blown into their heads, by mistake.

--- A.A. Milne

3 posted on 06/05/2014 12:07:50 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Mount Athos

A liberal gets mugged by reality, but is unable to i.d. the perp.


4 posted on 06/05/2014 12:08:01 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Mount Athos

But I thought only the rich paid taxes and I’m not rich . . . waaaaaaaaaaah!


5 posted on 06/05/2014 12:10:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dirtboy; thackney

They’re not too bright. Not too bright at all.


6 posted on 06/05/2014 12:11:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Mount Athos

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.................NOW PAY YOUR TAXES YOU VOTED FOR AND SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!!!!.........................

7 posted on 06/05/2014 12:12:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Mount Athos

someone has to pay for all that stuff for the children....


8 posted on 06/05/2014 12:12:10 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: thackney
Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”

LOOK IN THE MIRROR! THE PROBLEM IS Y O U !...................

10 posted on 06/05/2014 12:13:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Mount Athos
Woman who voted for every Austin, TX tax increase discovers that now she can’t afford to live there


That's actually merciful and positive outcome because she may be forced to move to a lower cost of living area ahead of the curve before the city ultimately becomes unlivable like the rest of the great cities liberals have fouled their nests and ruined with their policies

11 posted on 06/05/2014 12:14:28 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Mount Athos

hash tag # Face-palm selfie . . .


12 posted on 06/05/2014 12:15:02 PM PDT by trailz
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You asked for it dumbass. You voted for the tax increases and nowhere in the statutes you voted for was it specified that you idiots could decide what is fair or how your property would be valuated. You have no choices so be good little fascists and accept your fate and your “fair” share.


14 posted on 06/05/2014 12:15:58 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: F15Eagle

I’m not so sure she’s awake. She called for someone to step in and address the big picture. That probably means she thinks she needs financial assistance to help pay the taxes she voted for.


15 posted on 06/05/2014 12:16:17 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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‘A key problem, critics say, is that the current system has shifted a disproportionate share of the burden of paying for schools and local services on homeowners, in favor of commercial and corporate interests who can afford to appeal their values and win big reductions year after year. The share of property taxes from homeowners to support public schools grew from 45 percent to 54 percent over a 12-year period, while commercial and industrial owners’ share has declined to less than 20 percent. (Other sectors, from oil and gas to personal property, make up the rest.)’


16 posted on 06/05/2014 12:16:25 PM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: Mount Athos

PJ O’Rourke commented years ago how each illegal drug has its own built-in payback mechanism from paranoia and excess empathy (pot) to death (heroin). Liberalism, for all but the those at the very top of the food chain is much the same.


17 posted on 06/05/2014 12:17:01 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Mount Athos
Don't tax you
Don't tax me
Tax the guy behind the tree
On no that's me!
18 posted on 06/05/2014 12:18:09 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Mount Athos

What a ditz-I hope she doesn’t like the rural life-but she would get a reality check in a very short tome...


19 posted on 06/05/2014 12:18:15 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: dirtboy

Apparently the gubmint hand out “free” mirrors.


20 posted on 06/05/2014 12:18:46 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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