> The phrase “I’d prefer not to.”, strikes me as simple selfishness. Many people want “free stuff”. Why should they get it? <
I’m a bit confused by your post, to the poInt that I wonder if you read all of my post #2. Or maybe you are responding to the wrong post. At the end of my post I said: “I’d much rather see property taxes abolished, and replaced by some sort of sales tax.“
There is, of course, no free lunch. But property taxes have always struck me as being rather arbitrary. My house is worth $125,000 just because some assessor says so. I very much doubt if I could get that amount should I sell tomorrow.
And property taxes put a real burden on older folks on a fixed income. Better to have some sort of sales tax, as I noted earlier.
“My house is worth $125,000 just because some assessor says so. I very much doubt if I could get that amount should I sell tomorrow.”
In a booming market such as I have in my Florida county, it is very hard to know the market value of a house.
I don’t know the market value of my house and my guess might be off by $40,000.
My former neighbors were asking $279,000 for their house after buying it for $199,000 and putting in about $40,000 of work. I thought it wouldn’t sell. It sold to the first couple who looked.