Everyone here is complaining about property tax. Our taxes had skyrocketed the last few years. We used to pay 2 weeks of pay toward taxes, today it’s 2.5 MONTHS of pay that goes toward property taxes. It’s ridiculous!!!!
Because of high taxes, not the jobs economy, literally - no lie, half the homes on my block are up for sale.
Oklahoma’s Fallon wants to model Texas’ tax structure in Oklahoma. Very bad idea. If you have a job you can pay your income taxes from what you earn. Not so much with property taxes. No job, can’t pay the high taxes. Bad idea in Texas and bad idea in Oklahoma.
Texas is no retirement haven, can’t afford it. Texas is supporting a huge number of dependents, legal and otherwise. It would be Kalifornia before now if it were not for the less liberal business climate and enough oil and gas to get buy.
My taxes in Texas have doubled in the last 14 years, not so much my income. They go up even when the price of housing is going down. Make sense? No, of course not. How is it that the “citizens” on the appraisal boards can do this to their fellow citizens? Where did they come from.
Hostile panel here. Libs are libs if they are polite or not.
2.5 Months?
I’ll admit that I was suprised when I moved here from Illinois that my property taxes were pretty much just as high here. But 2.5 months?? Seems like you would have to be in a house way over your means.
I live in a 3,000 square foot house on a quarter acre lot built in 1997 in a nice but not ritzy subdivision. My property taxes are over $7,000/year which I must say I regard as outrageous. But then again if I made $2,800/month I wouldn’t have been able to afford the house to begin with.....so I don’t see how a person winds up in a house with taxes 2.5 times their monthly salary - unless of course they lose a job or something.
On the other hand I went from a 3% state income tax to a 0% state income tax, so all things considered I still came out way ahead.
Hank