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Posted on 06/24/2020 6:28:30 PM PDT by grundle
The decades of race and gender wars has led to a dearth of the homesteaders who were the backbone of our economic and political system; few young people see the point in having families and buying the homes to raise them. The stability of that arrangement is gone, and now the elites are scrambling for anything to replace it.
This is coming to a head because those families provided a tax base for municipalities; in cities they are practically extinct, so those governments need new sugar daddies.
Thank goodness someone “non-white” has spoken up. Really, really stupid people in large groups cause a lot of damage.
They’ve done the polling.
They now know they have to distance themselves from the radicals and fake being statesmanlike.
It’s all about finding and expanding the Overton Window.
They’re still the same radicals. Just using end-stage socialism to look good in contrast.
Tomorrow the Democrats will start cracking down on the protestors. Looking all solemn and leadershipy.
That is because the Black class had more time to sit on their black asses while whitey works to cloth and feed them
Ezekiel 18....no blood generational guilt was to be assumed levied by God on a son or daughter for the sins of their parents(though they might suffer “consequences” and trauma for what their parents did). Each individual is to be accountable for their own sins or to be saved by their own faithful righteousness to God for what they do in their present lives, not for what their fathers did in the past!
No next descendent reparations are supported from a biblical standpoint so when some white shmuck theologian or black dude “reverend” try to argue otherwise...tell them to read Ezekiel 18!
Don’t trust him. He’s for reparations. Every word he utters, whether true or not, has and end goal and it is not for America.
Wouldn’t it be great if he scheduled Dukes of Hazzard in the BET lineup?
Right. He doesn't care about statues or symbols or kneeling.
He wants cash. "Show me the MONEY, MOFO!"
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[The decades of race and gender wars has led to a dearth of the homesteaders who were the backbone of our economic and political system]
“The one thing you can do is research it, find out, because blacks watched more television than whites did, always has been historically.”
Wow.
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By “homesteaders” I mean people who would assume responsibility for a property, committing to paying 30 years worth or property taxes and mortgage payments while caring for the land and home.
The concept is disappearing, so the residential tax base disappears. In my area (northeastern NJ) few young people buy homes; older single-family homes are demolished for multi-family units in which only one unit (at most) houses the owner - the rest are people with no ties to the area who retain the freedom to pick up and leave (to follow jobs and such). Many of those will never own anything (home, car) but rent everything; they also have no children (hence no need for their own space), and their mobility keeps them one step ahead of the urban sprawl. Where there is land available, huge apartment buildings with accompanying dog parks go up; they are designed to attract non-breeding drones who won’t add children to the public school system (by far the largest expense of any municipality here).
This area is dying because when local government taxed the employers away from the area, the young skilled people could follow them - leaving older people tied to mortgages with high taxes and younger less-skilled immigrants who don’t want to pay for anything. The recent fiscal disaster of Red Chinese flu, in which income taxes on businesses are plummeting due to the lockdown, will show just how destructive these policies have been; there are still no government layoffs/furloughs, but little has been collected.
I am a fellow current resident of the PRNJ. You are spot on with the one-sided approach that government takes with regards to expenditures. They never reduce spending, even when revenues decrease like the rest of us would have to do. They simply increase taxes or add fees because in their eyes, all government spending is absolutely necessary, and must therefore be funded somehow.
I just received an estimated tax notification from my municipality for the 3rd quarter (as you probably have as well). In the notice, they included a letter informing us there is a 'delay' of the adoption of the 2020 NJ state budget (no kidding).
My estimated 3rd quarter property taxes show an increase of 8%. This isn't a massive increase, but for the past 10 years, the annual increase has been a manageable 2%-3%. This jump is obviously due to the decrease in revenue as a result of the government imposed lockdowns, resulting in the closing of many small businesses and the related increase in unemployment claims.
Makes sense fro their perspective I suppose. Who is a more captive audience than property owners when the government needs to bleed some more money to feed their bloated budgets? Government unions are more powerful than tax-paying property owners.
The proverbial 'golden handcuffs' are keeping me here for at least another year.
My understanding is that anything over a 2% tax increase in NJ has to go on a ballot; in my area I just see other services disappear as teachers’ unions get 4-5% increases (because they can’t raise our taxes 4-5%). So the roads crumble, the painted stripes are worn away, foliage blocks stops signs - and the teachers laugh all the way to the bank.
The town north of me bought a closed Catholic high school (I suspect to prevent a charter school from doing so, because they are a tax burden as well), and the voters were asked to approve all kinds of spending to fix it up and staff it. They were smart enough to vote down every spending measure; they knew it was the only way their taxes could increase more than 2%, and they also knew that any new public school teachers hired for it would drain them even more.
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