Posted on 03/24/2020 1:17:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
Angry locals in towns and villages all over the UK have put up signs demanding that second home owners leave and return to their city properties amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Londoners and people living in big cities all over the UK are flocking to the seaside and their second homes to escape the virus, drawing the ire of locals.
Now, furious locals in St Ives, Cornwall have scrawled messages on the beach demanding second home owners leave.
An even more furious sign has appeared in Bala, north Wales, which says 'Go home rats'.
It come as the government urged people not to head to the countryside or to holiday homes, with fears that they could be spreading the virus throughout the nation.
However, despite their pleas, government commands and Boris Johnson imposing a UK-wide lockdown, second homers are remaining defiant and continuing to flock to the countryside in their droves.
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Yet the liberals want to keep our southern borders open and the illegals come here with no resources but lots of disease.
I think when a person becomes a Democrat there’s a gene released that causes great hypocrisy.
Actually, I think they’re borne with that defective gene and at some point during their lifetime it’s triggered.
The potential flaw in your logic is that you as a full time resident (as well as the other full time residents) vote for the local government that sets the tax rates. We all know that there isnt anything greedier or more rapacious than government, but if the taxes go through the roof then the locals are far more to blame than the part time residents.
but if the taxes go through the roof then the locals are far more to blame than the part time residents.
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Example -
Washington State
Huge population (liberal) on the west side votes in big property taxes. Many are renters and do not directly see these taxes.
Small population (conservative) on the east side does not vote for these taxes.
Meanwhile, the east side grows all the food for the west side. East side has rural setting that the west side invades for recreation. PS the invaders try to turn the east side into the culture that they are escaping from.
This is not ‘logic’. This is fact.
You are either deliberately or accidentally conflating local taxes with state taxes. You were talking about property taxes going up so that locals cant afford them. Property taxes are set at the county level so that the renters in Seattle have no input to the property tax rate in Eastern Washington. I really hate it when someone dishonestly puts forth a bogus argument. I hope you just didnt make the connection with real estate taxes being being strictly local
I really hate it when someone dishonestly puts forth a bogus argument.
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I really hate it when someone calls me dishonest.
I didnt call you dishonest although there are plenty of jackasses on FR who will knowingly advance a spurious argument to try and score some sort of points. You were just wrong. You do know that real estate taxes are set at the county level and part time residents have no say in who sets them
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