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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: XRdsRev
People who want to rank high control the criteria. I was citing John Dewey who has a lot more clout in ed circles than Morgan.
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posted on
01/20/2007 10:57:25 AM PST
by
ClaireSolt
(Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
To: ClaireSolt
John Dewey has been dead for over 50 years.
Morgan compiles data on education that is applicable to here and now.
Dewey was about early 20th century education philosophy. Morgan is about education results in 2007.
Nothing against Dewey but he has nothing to do with evaluating performance in today's schools.
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posted on
01/20/2007 11:28:01 AM PST
by
XRdsRev
(The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: Kaslin
Is that not age discrimination?
To: Sword_Svalbardt
I don't think that has anything to do with age discrimination
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posted on
01/20/2007 11:42:49 AM PST
by
Kaslin
(In war, there are two exit strategies. One is called victory. The other is called defeat.)
To: flynmudd
The state is quite beautiful in the western part. That said, I've driven along I-95 on more than one occasion through clouds of noxious fumes so thick I was concerned about the paint on my truck being eaten away.
:)
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posted on
01/20/2007 11:50:38 AM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I predict this state will become another borough of NYC within 20 years.
To: qam1; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; tortoise; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; m18436572; ...
Xer Ping
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.
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posted on
01/20/2007 12:11:10 PM PST
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: Kaslin
Much of the new development in Connecticut seems to be age restricted. The end result of course is that family housing becomes much more expensive.
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posted on
01/20/2007 12:19:29 PM PST
by
Koblenz
(The Dem Platform, condensed: 1. Tax and Spend. 2. Cut and Run. 3. Man on Man)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
I agree.Boot camp at FT.Dix in January to March was a reason to pass by every chance I got.Riding the trains sure can be an eye opener.
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posted on
01/20/2007 1:19:57 PM PST
by
xarmydog
To: Vigilanteman
What about the taxes they pay into medicare and social security? Is that not "paying their own way"?
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posted on
01/20/2007 1:45:05 PM PST
by
Huntress
(Proud owner of Norman/Norma, the transsexual attack cat.)
To: metmom
so anybody who does not wanna live with kids hates em?
To: XRdsRev; flynmudd
Children!!! Stop it!!! VA and NJ are both beautiful states, in many places.
This is the FR equivalent of "Mom!! she's looking at me!!"
You-back to your corner
You-back to yours.
go. now. :)
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posted on
01/20/2007 3:12:08 PM PST
by
Shimmer128
(Mom of four young men, who all act better than you all are acting.)
To: nwrep; XRdsRev
This is my New Jersey. 30,000 parkland acres of near continuous forested rolling hills
and lakes, on the NY border with another 30,000+ acres of state parkland.
These 200,000+ acres alone in North Jersey and adjoining New York State have more visitors yearly
than every national park west of the Mississippi river combined.
If you can afford it, it's a great place to live.
To: Kaslin
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posted on
01/20/2007 4:50:29 PM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: JerseyHighlander; XRdsRev
Thanks. Here are some pictures of Oregon:
Cherry Orchards against Mt. Hood:
Mt. Bachelor and Three Sisters:
Tulip Fields, Central Williamette Valley
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posted on
01/20/2007 5:04:28 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: SauronOfMordor
Nope, no kids.
We did without so that my dad (a WWII vet, He was wounded by the Italians and Germans at Salerno, a geophysicist by vocation) could send us to a private school.
Doing without did not exclude our clothes being made from scrap cloth sold at a gas station in a very rural town of 200 people.
Government control of land and minds needs to be abolished.
Sad part is that even too many conservatives don't get it.
They speak of liberty and enjoying their vacation at a national park.
Neal Boortz is one of them. I live in Atlanta.
Neal is bright, but not that bright.
Neal probably thought Israel was
a relic of history on 10Sep01.
I used to attempt to call His show years before (years)
to discuss middles east affairs on open line days.
His producer/call screener always rejected them.
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posted on
01/20/2007 6:32:05 PM PST
by
smb30
To: flynmudd
If not for the numbnuts that run the place, New Jersey is a very nice place. Four seasons, farms, cities, Giants, Jets, Devils, Nets, ski in the winter and surf in the summer. If we could get the liberals to go away, I'd go back.
One of the most beautiful cherry blooms in the nation happens in New Jersey ever year. It's in the middle of those scenes in the opening credits of The Sopranos.
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posted on
01/20/2007 7:20:38 PM PST
by
sig226
(See my profile for the democrat culture of corruption list.)
To: SauronOfMordor
They're all over the place. The kids go to schools in neighboring districts or towns. The home town is assessed a tuition based on whatever they base it on and pays it to the district with the school. Saddle River, New Jersey, has no high school. I think it also has no middle school. The public school kids go to Allendale, Ramsey, or Montvale.
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posted on
01/20/2007 7:36:21 PM PST
by
sig226
(See my profile for the democrat culture of corruption list.)
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