Posted on 11/20/2022 4:22:14 AM PST by ExGeeEye
When will people wake up to the facts.
This is something that has bothered me for a long time.
I live in a small town. When we moved here, the town used to do certain services, like weed control on sidewalks, trash pickup twice weekly, etc. They started doing less and less - meanwhile - demanding more and more in taxes.
Not happy.
If we xan’t get rid of the property tax altogether, I do think that the property taxes should freeze so that elderly people do not lose their homes because they can’t afford to pay the increased taxes. I lived in an area which “took off” in popularity, so values increased, taxes increased, and the people who had lived there all their lives could no longer afford to live there.
Truly horrid.
Of course, losing one’s family home because of the high cost of taxes is also bad, but not as bad as this, because the heirs have usually moved to other places of their own. We are going through this now in our family, where an inherited home might be sold simply because the taxes on the house are astronomical.
Tell me about it. My kids were educated here.
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In my community we vote on real estate taxes. Sometimes the vote goes one way, sometimes the other.
I don’t know about your area, but around here it has been a local government issue every time I voted on it, not a State government issue and certainly not a Federal government issue.
Your problem may be with your “friends” and neighbors.
“So you don’t want roads, or schools, or sheriffs, or fire departments, or libraries, or parks, because property tax pays for your local services from your county.”
If you live rural you don’t get hardly any of that back anyhow. It all says in the cities and very little of what you pay in comes back.
It is straight up taxation without representation.
Same here, see #14
+1000
In Indiana, almost 60% of our property tax goes to the schools.
I'm more concerned about taxing entities in distant places.
All property in America was once, initially owned by the government. The land was purchased from various and sundry Indian entities
There is still lots and lots of government land in Nevada and Utah and California that is desert and no one wanted to buy it.
All American history can be reduced to the desire to own, buy and sell land.
The fact land and real estate is taxed has no bearing on ownership.
Been saying this for years. I don’t know why it’s accepted. MY other pet peeve is income tax withholding. Whoever came up with that was a genius. I say let’s make it where, prior to April 15th, everyone writes a check for their income tax for the previous year. Let’s see how long our current government lasts.
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“The fact land and real estate is taxed has no bearing on ownership.”
lol... Go ahead and prove it. Don’t pay your taxes for three years and see what happens. They kick you out, confiscate it, and sell “the right to lease/rent” to someone who CAN pay the taxes.
No... It is NEVER actually yours. It always belongs to the people in common through government stewardship, threat, and coercion.
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“The fact land and real estate is taxed has no bearing on ownership.”
I just applied for the tax deed on the 1 acre property that was in tax foreclosure I purchased from the state for $762 several years ago. When I get the tax deed in about 3 weeks I will own the property. I can sell it, build on it, whatever I want to do. The fact that the previous owner did not pay their property taxes had a significant bearing on ownership.
Hey! I am with you on this issue!
They taxed the “property” inside my business as well as the building inside. Wow! That tax was like a bur in my shoe.
One more thing:
We live in a 650 sq. ft. condo in a city with one of the lowest property taxes in America. We do it for lots of reasons but a major one is property taxes.
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