Then there were my appeals to the district courts. Saved me over a $100k as they gave me free room and board for eleven years.
Posted on 07/05/2025 9:55:28 AM PDT by Racketeer
BREAKING: President Trump says he wants no more property taxes across the United States.
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Maybe not.
But, the FL legislature recently formed a committee to study getting rid of property taxes on homesteaded property.
The committee will report its findings in September.
DeSantis is on board with the concept.
Put those all into the sales tax.
Why do we pay local officials so much money.
They want to make sure you never own your house (taxes) even if you pay it off.
Repo man standing by
Trump is right
While failing by any possible definition of the word, public school administrators consistently give themselves raises via collusion with the tax assessors.
In a lot of places, everyone in on the scam (school and hospital administration in Texas, along with tax officials) will see no tax increases while normal property taxpayers are getting raped by the tax assessors year after year.
All it takes is one property in a county selling at an exhorbitant price and everyone gets destroyed.
Yours and my SS will be taxed. The Republicans dropped the idea of eliminating them because they claim it will bankrupt SS even sooner. Trump is still claiming (as of last night) that he eliminated taxes on SS. Not true! One article after another (including in Forbes Magazine) show why that isn’t true.
I also pay incredible property taxes year after year to fund the local school district and its overpaid teachers. I haven’t had a vacation in years but a couple of elementary school teachers I know take a winter vacation in Vermont every year and travel around the country in the summer.
They own three vehicles—two, top-of-the line vans they bought just this year and an expensive, foreign-made SUV. I live in one of the poorest counties in Pennsylvania with lots of senior citizens. We’re funding these “educators’” extravagant lifestyle and there’s no relief in sight.
Trump’s idea will never fly. Local governments will shoot it down in an instant. Like the SS tax exemption, he shouldn’t suggest or promise what he can’t deliver. His credibility is on the line. Does he really know what’s in the bill or not?
Amen!!!
Yeah, it isn’t your property. You don’t own it. You RENT it. You don’t pay the tax and you’re out on your ear.
I’ve read it three times and still don’t understand it. Something to do with the Byrd Rule.
Property tax is a tax on unrealized gains. Most don’t have the gray matter to know what that is.
Our Founding Fathers would be angry, very angry. That said, I have been successful in the past three years in winning my appeals against my County Tax Nazis….has saved me $6-7 thousand over three years.
Hint: DO NOT challenge their comps, a losing game.
This land isn’t your land, this land isn’t my land.
From California to the NY Island,
From the Redwood Forests to the Gulf stream waters (formerly known as Gulf of Mexico),
This land is rented by you and me.
And you’re lucky to get that
Lol, we will see about that.
Well I love the idea but I presume to pay for local police, fire, schools, well, the money has to come from somewhere. I certainly don’t want it all federalized.
It boils down to the fact that the country has become a nation of predominately takers, and the few remaining givers are continually called on to give more. It should be the way the country started with only stakeholders (land owners) having the right to vote. Now more and more lazy people just sit on their rears and vote to take more and more from the working stiffs.
My property taxes mostly go to my towns schools. We pay high taxes and we get high performing schools. When it comes to the literacy and STEM students in our town, they graduate from high school usually at college level in terms of skill sets. Even our worst grads are better educated that most in the surrounding communities.
I would not really want to change that.
And, since local taxes are not under the purview of the Federal government I cannot really see how they are going to change THAT system.
For a bunch of people who believe in a small government, Republicans lately seem to want to spend more, take on more debt, and control more than they used to.
I would be happy with cutting Federal spending. I am very able to deal with the local town and school leadership because they live next door to me. Congress does not.
You are getting a two or three year additional deduction that would reduce your total tax burden. They are telling you it’s an elimination on taxes for social security. “They” think you are stupid. You are not. You are accurate.
It is in the BBB...
It’s a local tax. Feds have nothing to do with it
In GA most counties implement a SPLOST, or special purpose local option sales tax. These are usually just a cent or two for roads, special projects and similar. They are on top of state sales tax. We vote on those county by county.
Property tax millage rate is set by elected commissioner’s who must approve a balanced budget for every fiscal year. The value of one’s home and property is set by the tax assessor. Real estate taxes, corporate and personal are majority funders of county budgets.
For a ‘no property tax, just sales tax plan to
work the state would have to mandate the change happen for all.counties while keeping the requirements for balanced budgets. The problem with an all sales tax model is that some of our agriculture and timber counties have far too little commerce to go all sales tax and fund their county government. There’d have to be some method of grants from the state to make it work.
Revenue sharing would never work due to the immediate cries of rich v poor, black counties affected most. The usual. Devil is in the details. Might have to break out Neal Boortz’s Fair Tax book for his ideas.
Then there were my appeals to the district courts. Saved me over a $100k as they gave me free room and board for eleven years.
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