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Towns tame taxes by keeping children out
Bloomberg News via The Washington Times ^ | January 20, 2007 | Bob Ivry

Posted on 01/20/2007 4:22:15 AM PST by Kaslin

New Jersey towns have figured out a way to sidestep the highest property taxes in the U.S. Keep children out. Educating a child in New Jersey costs an average of $12,567 a year, the most in the nation and more than double the property tax parents typically pay. So local governments have hit upon a way to expand the tax base without the expense of higher enrollment: age-restricted housing.

New Jersey developers have responded by building an estimated one-fifth of the country's adults-only housing, making the state the leader in a national trend spurred by baby boomers seeking new homes after their children move out.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: adultsonly; babyboomers; breeders; culturewar; dinks; dualincomenokids; genx; greedygeezers; homosexualagenda; taxes
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To: Mr. Jeeves

I agree with you. California is unfairly portrayed and demeaned on a regular basis.

FR is great but unfortunately we have our fair share of ignorant bitter people who post here. But hey, it's a free country, stupid speech is protected too.


41 posted on 01/20/2007 7:41:27 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: Kaslin

They must not have been paying attention to the problems of countries without sufficient children. Children are the future of every society. Without them a society dies.

I cannot understand why some folks do not want to be around children. The excitement of a child at Christmas or blowing out candles on a birthday cake are priceless, not to mention getting a hug from a child.


42 posted on 01/20/2007 7:42:46 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: nwrep

I don't disagree with you....

My point is that every state has some great things going for it and every state has some problems. To say any state is totally good or totally bad, is simply ridiculous.

It gets kind of annoying reading these childish "your state sucks" posts. I have been in almost every state in the nation and every one of them has their own dirty laundry.


43 posted on 01/20/2007 7:49:33 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: XRdsRev

Never heard of Morgan. But the tradition os American education is training citizens, and as long as New Jersey cannot rid itself of gross corruption, I say their schools are failing in a fundamental task.


44 posted on 01/20/2007 8:07:18 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: ClaireSolt
A NJ 11th grader brought a textbook that I thought was on about the 4th grade level.

Then he must have been in the Advanced Placement class.

45 posted on 01/20/2007 8:16:45 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: ClaireSolt

Morgan is a company that rates states and cities on various different criteria including education.

I don't disagree with you that citizenship is important but for good or bad, that is not an educational criteria. My post was in response to another post commenting on the poor quality of a New Jersey student's textbook. I do not question the accuracy of that post, I was simply pointing out that New Jersey's overall education system is rated excellent. There are some very bad districts but more good ones that produce top notch students who can function in New Jersey's technology and medical driven business economy.

If citizenship skills were the sole basis for evaluating education, then most states would fail miserably including your own state of Florida where a significant number of students know more about Cuba etc. than they do about the US.


46 posted on 01/20/2007 8:17:02 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: smb30

I would like to see a community that decides to not have a public school system. You have kids? Enroll them in a private school, or move to someplace that has a public school system


47 posted on 01/20/2007 8:17:24 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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To: Mamzelle

They might, but I doubt they would not be allowed to live in the same town


48 posted on 01/20/2007 8:20:40 AM PST by Kaslin (In war, there are two exit strategies. One is called victory. The other is called defeat.)
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To: metmom

I don't think there is anything exceptional in this. Most retirement communities are childless. That does not mean their children and grandchildren can not visit them


49 posted on 01/20/2007 8:26:15 AM PST by Kaslin (In war, there are two exit strategies. One is called victory. The other is called defeat.)
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To: Moonman62
NJ away from the cities I thought was a nice place, but not in the winter.

It's the Garden State, you know.

50 posted on 01/20/2007 8:29:29 AM PST by poindexter
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To: Vigilanteman; All
This sounds like a fair deal to me:

No kids allowed in town.

No social security or medicare remittances.

After all, childless couples should be able to afford to pay their own way.

The article is not about childless couples, but about couples who could move to the community after their children move out of their houses

51 posted on 01/20/2007 8:34:54 AM PST by Kaslin (In war, there are two exit strategies. One is called victory. The other is called defeat.)
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To: XRdsRev
Notice flyingmud said she looked out of the window when the plane flew over New Jersey. I would not call that having been to new Jersey

No I was looking out of the window of a plane. New Jersey reminds me of dirty underware just like their politics...full of sh*t.

20 posted on 01/20/2007 8:30:54 AM CST by flynmudd (Proud Navy Mom to OSSA Blalock-DDG 61)

52 posted on 01/20/2007 8:47:49 AM PST by Kaslin (In war, there are two exit strategies. One is called victory. The other is called defeat.)
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To: flying Elvis
A female resident said she is concerned a young couple living near her might have a baby, fearing she might eventually hear it crying.

Oh the horror!!!! I hope she never disturbed someone when she was a baby....

53 posted on 01/20/2007 8:55:58 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Kaslin

flynmudd wrote "New Jersey reminds me of dirty underware just like their politics...full of sh*t."

I guess flynmudd must have been hung over for awhile since she doesn't seem to remember that her own state (Virginia) has a somewhat liberal democrat governor and they just elected an anti-Bush democrat to the Senate. Seems a little like the pot calling the kettle black.


54 posted on 01/20/2007 9:06:58 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: DogBarkTree; flynmudd

That's enough.


55 posted on 01/20/2007 9:18:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: XRdsRev; flynmudd

> If I judged all of Virginia just by Alexandria and Richmond, I would think your state was a hellhole too. <


Alexandria is a hell-hole? In what sense? I was just there yesterday, and it looks great to me.


56 posted on 01/20/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Admin Moderator

Terribly sorry. I let him drag me down to his level.


57 posted on 01/20/2007 9:27:38 AM PST by flynmudd (Proud Navy Mom to OSSA Blalock-DDG 61)
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To: Hawthorn

Alexandria has some nice parts down along the water "Old Town" but it also has some crime issues and some horrible neighborhoods. The traffic in and around Alexandria is some of the worst on the east coast. If you like urban areas, office complexes, apartment builings and traffic jams, then Alexandria is not that bad.


58 posted on 01/20/2007 9:41:35 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: flynmudd

Are you serious ???? Your's was the first insulting post on this thread.


59 posted on 01/20/2007 9:43:00 AM PST by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: David Isaac

Does Marxism's "from each according to ability to each according to need" not "count" when selfish babyboomers are beyond "their committment" to funding education.

Meanwhile these New Jersey citizens probably still support federal funding of health care.

The ME generation continues to take.


60 posted on 01/20/2007 10:03:20 AM PST by weegee (The Left is worried that '24' will have the same effect as LBJ's 'Daisy' mushroom ad.)
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