Posted on 02/13/2021 7:48:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
When your property is taxed (by any method), you no longer own that property. You are just renting it. And the rent is the tax goes to the government.
I’d much rather see property taxes abolished, and replaced by some sort of sales tax.
A. Define a ‘tax unit’.
B. I have no kids-—never did have any.
I have paid out over 80 years of school taxes in property taxes on homes I have bought/inherited.
I sure would like a refund...........
Schools make up the bulk of our property taxes.
I like this idea. Apartments do not currently pay a proportionate amount of tax per occupant versus home dwellers. They come in and raise everyone else’s tax for “social goods.”
I think a sales tax is the best form of tax.
I agree with you and with the schools closed due to COVID, we ALL should get a refund but noooo, our school taxes went up last October.
Abolish property taxes across the board. It’s an artifact of Feudalism.
If any of it is kept then it should only be on productive land - up until the 1970s the Homestead Exemption was common. It’s still there in many states but is undervalued. In California that was part of the Prop 13 deal, but it should never have been up for debate. Our homes are not a cash cow for local unemployable trash (”politicians”) to milk.
Excise and user fee taxes to pay for actually needed “services” are all that are needed. We don’t need the Teachers Union having a stranglehold on the places we live.
So it’s “ad valorem.” When the preposition is “ad” (to/toward), the noun that’s the direct object takes the accusative case (-em, -am, -um, for singular) like in “ad hominem.” The ending “-orum” is plural possessive, like in “sanctum sanctorum” (holy of holies).
You pay tax to keep your home. Stop paying and the government takes your home away, then subsidies you. It makes no sense.
Nonstarter: low-income housing that accommodates young families, with however many number of parents present, by far woyld be the most costly based on your principle.
I have to pay over 4 grand in property taxes this year for my OLD 1952 home. Ridiculous.
“a 1,400 square foot split-level house at 37.42 tax units”
Assume 100 linear feet of public road frontage too, which would have 4 tax units.
The total tax units for the property would be 41.42.
Let’s assume the tax rate is $50/tax unit for property tax year 2022.
The property tax for property tax year 2022 would be $50*41.42 or $2,071.
Here’s a better idea. No “taxation” of property.
The property “tax” is an incremental confiscation of the supposed value of your property. At a rate of 3%, the government has taken the full value of your house after 33 years, ignoring inflation. This is understandable, since the statists don’t want you to own anything, but they can’t seize it just yet, so they slice off a piece each year.
This confiscation is cleverly disguised with the use of the term “Mill rate.” The public doesn’t know what a mill is, and so never realizes the actual percentage of their property they are giving to the government.
Their end goal is for you to own nothing, and for the state to own everything. They don’t dare grab your house just yet, but they’re working on it. When they do it, it’ll sound something like “racial equity” or some such nonsense.
You are right, irishjuggler, it’s not “ad valorum” it’s “ad valorem”.
The square root of stupidity is still stupidity.
Words from an Ohio auditor to state. “I stand by my values as submitted and have no plans to submit a third tentative abstract raising county wide residential values to 20%.” Ohio F’n Republicans. This guy was looking for a 14% increase, wasn’t enough for the state.
Pardon my mistake.
Ad valorem taxation is the true culprit.
Exactly. I’m paying hundreds of dollars per month in rent on property that I own, most of which goes to a failed public school/indoctrination system. It’s despicable.
My suggestion would be to put a reasonable lifetime cap on all property taxes. $30k would be about right.
I’ll trade tax bills with you.
In NYS it’s schools andedicaid since NYS cost shares Medicaid with counties.
The problem with taxation.
Toll
Tariff
Taxation
Are all the same. It’s declaring that others owe just for the luxury of having access to that which they are being charged a fee to use.
The question of , can we tax or should we tax are long past and now it’s only a question of what and how to tax next.
If we can’t escape the slavery of taxation, it should be tied to the economy in a way that provides instant feed back to the legislators regarding their affect on the economy. The tax should be a fixed rate and only on sales of new , non-essential goods and materials. Every level from the city to the fed should be limited to collect for sales that cross their borders, much like a tariff. That way, their tax schemes will directly reflect the effect they have with in their local economy.
There should be no taxation on transaction within the jurisdictional borders of a city, county, state or Federal Gov. Cities only tax transaction that cross their city limits. The county, state and US Gov would do the same. This would limit Government to only collect taxes on import/export transactions and not US citizens.
Anyway, that’s my opinion.
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