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I didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate thread, I apologize.
1 posted on 10/31/2005 5:18:41 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Houses in Netherlands used to have a "window tax" so they built very few windows into the houses.


2 posted on 10/31/2005 5:24:47 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Well property taxes are based on property values... just like seaside property is worth more, I can see how some mountain property is worth more.


3 posted on 10/31/2005 5:27:59 PM PST by gondramB
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

They will lose. My oceanfront home was hit with a "view tax" ten years ago. When we won, the city had to refund all monies for 3 years, and pay our legal fees.


4 posted on 10/31/2005 5:28:53 PM PST by calrighty (Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

F'em in Orford. 236 Rats voted for Kerry, 71 for Bush in 2004. These rural tax-maggots have been putting the squeeze on the more affluent portion of the state, trying to increase our taxes in Bush country to improve the schools in thier 1 horse towns.


7 posted on 10/31/2005 5:41:38 PM PST by evolved_rage
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"In Bischoff's case, the view added $140,000 to his property's underlying value of $22,900. As a result, he expects his property taxes to jump from less than $500 last year to more than $3,000 this year."

Wow

9 posted on 10/31/2005 5:46:22 PM PST by kanawa
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13 posted on 10/31/2005 5:51:22 PM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Note that it's the government's view, not that of the owner of what is being viewed. In no other market is the owner of the asset so penalized.
20 posted on 10/31/2005 6:15:17 PM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Class warfare makes a "view tax" perfectly acceptable, but morally and legally unjustifiable.

This trend needs to be nipped in the bud. If the decision is made by an elected official, vote him out.
If by an appointed or hired bureaucrat, fire him. Here is one area where timidity or hesitation is fatal.

If they can't wait until the property changes hands and the real value established by how much a purchaser is willing to pay, then too bad.
Arbitrary and capricious subjective self-serving governance has never been moral, legal nor Constitutional.

21 posted on 10/31/2005 6:19:44 PM PST by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I should really just kill myself.


30 posted on 10/31/2005 9:21:36 PM PST by jocon307
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"Live Free or Die"?

Prove it, suckers.

33 posted on 11/01/2005 3:36:57 AM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
sTUPID, LOCALITIES ARE WORING IN "VIEWSHEDS" IN gENERIC Environmental Impact Studies.

If you read viewshed or view tax, run for the hills, or perhaps a cave.

38 posted on 11/01/2005 7:39:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Confirm Alito before year end!)
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