Spreading the infection
I left the DFW TX area after forty years partly because of the outrageous property taxes and the ever increasing cost of living in the metro area.
““It has redistributed wealth in this nation from Democratic states—we’re also called blue states—to red states,” he said at the time.”
Isn’t Trump clever?
But all he reduced was the Federal deduction. If taxes are too high in those States, it’s nobody’s fault but the voters that vote in people that raise taxes. Red States tend to be more fiscally conservative and don’t need the feds fixing their problems.
It’s interesting that the title says Texas. I tried to read the rest of the article but there is a wall. So I didn’t see where Texas was mentioned. Our very brief stint living there, are property taxes were confiscatory. I don’t hear much of that here, so perhaps it was just our County. We paid more in property tax in Corpus Christi then we did property tax and state income tax combined in California. On a comparable house. On the other hand we’re in Tennessee now and are property taxes are a pittance. As are car registrations. And the state budget is balanced and the roads are great. Blue States could learn a thing or two.
Didn’t Dems say they wanted to raise taxes on the wealthiest? Doesn’t this do it with minimum harm to middle class people?
Property taxes should be flat out abolished and outlawed.
What? A democrat admitting that democrat states = high tax states in all cases? Doesn't he know they're supposed to lie about that?
Ping me when Malibu beachfront land is $1.25/acre again
The property taxes in downstate, suburban NY City are obscene. A friend owns a very typical 4 bedroom suburban house in Westchester, and they pay $21,000 in property taxes every year. He recently became semi-retired when he was let go from his job, and it effectively means his family can’t afford to stay in their home.
Its a new form of feudalism. One doesn’t own one’s own property and taxes are destined to support the Lords of the state regime and their retinue.
NY NJ CA and TX residents need a real property and state income tax caps in our federal Constitution.
Actually it's the opposite. For many years taxpayers in lower tax states were subsidizing those in places like New York because the deduction was allowed. If your crooked state government is raping you on property taxes why should you be allowed to take a deduction on federal taxes which decreases your federal liability? Those federal taxes you didn't pay have to be made up by other taxpayers, taxpayers that are usually located in states with more sane property tax policies.
when you pay $300=2000 a month, on top of mortgage, simply for the privilege of owning a home, the state is forcing the taxpayer out of the state. Because the state believes in increasing their department budgets by 10% or so each year, to compensate the ever-increasing payroll. An ever-increasing payroll as departments micromanage every step of life and business, because what else would they do with all those employees? And the poor and displaced grow, which gives the state the excuse to raise even more taxes and increase more payrolls. Of course, the cure to all this is states on a diet. Instead of increasing by 10% or so, how about cutting by 10% for 6 or 7 years? And then the state wouldn’t need to raise so much money in property taxes. And the taxpayer wouldn’t be micromanaged into abandoning their state and ‘redistributing their wealth’ elsewhere.
Weather. It’s about the weather
Ca has the best weather. All time. Except Hawaii
California refugees, don’t vote for what you fled.
The evil of multiculturalism is that it imports people from failed societies and then says you’re bad if you adopt to the successful habits, and that you’re evil if you push them to adapt.
I’m seeing a lot of California license plates with ‘Bernie’ stickers on them in my neighborhood.
Some of my in-laws who live in PA put their (beautiful large but un-modernized) house up at an accesible price..but it actually sold for more, even though the town is a a Dem dump and needs a lotta work. . So, yes, people are looking to move out of high-tax liberal land, where you pay both state income tax and property taxes and get absolutely nothing in return.
Forf those who have multiple horses-—want to live rural-—have LOW property taxes (Mine currently are under $750 for the whole year)-—Have some acreage—5.58 acres here....
House—garage—well—septic—6 steel pens 24X 12 3 paddocks over 1.3 acres each. 3 smaller paddocks 12 total horse enclosures. Paved road. 1 mile to US HWY.
I have my horse property up for sale.
Contact me on Private Message. I will give more details & answer all your questions.
..TX is the land of my birth, and my heart will always be there, but we just couldn’t afford the property taxes. Still got out of CA —thank heaven...