New York Town Lets Senior Pay Off Property Tax Bill With Cheap Labor

Fox News ^ | December 25th, 2007 | Associated Press

[Wiggins]

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh.

[2ndDivisionVet]

In Mississippi, seniors don’t have to pay property taxes.

[Paleo Conservative]

They could sell their house in Yankee land, buy a bigger house on the Gulf Coast, and pay lower or no property taxes.

[Shadowstrike]

They don’t have to in Alabama either, just have to file for a tax exemption every year. This is a disgrace making a 76 year old Lady ‘work’. They should be ashamed. :(

[Graybeard58]

Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month........

she pays about $12,000 a year in property taxes

[billmor]

That poor lady..Her house is in Westchester County where property taxes are among the highest in NY State and she pays $12,000 a year in taxes..She has a reverse mortgage too—probably to help pay the taxes..If she works she gets $7 an hour...At that rate and with that annual tax bill, she would hardly be able to really retire...NY State almost sounds eager to get (experiences) seniors out to the schools, libraries, social centers, etc to get them to work, saying it’s for their own good...actually, it’s slave labor-with a wage....

[thefactor]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944148/posts

i'm not the posting police! but this previous thread has over 100 replies and the discourse is pretty good. check it out.

[Paleo Conservative]

Sounds like indentured servitude to me.

[Graybeard58]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944148/posts

[Wiggins]

I did a search for it. Nothing came up. What can I say?

[thefactor]

happens all the time. i’ll search with the full correct title and nothing comes up and then someone points out i have double posted. i have been here for a long time and still have not mastered the search function.

[Graybeard58]

What can I say?

Not your fault. Different title, different source, same article.

[SatinDoll]

And worry about getting wiped out in a hurricane. My mother’s room mate in a nursing home here in Washington state, was a woman medivacuated from south Louisiana (by her loving sons) before Katrina hit.

[enduserindy]

Resulting in higher property taxes?

[Wiggins]

Thanks.I feel a little bit better now.

[Razz Barry]

Davison, who suffers from arthritis and sciatica and needs a walker to get around on her bad days, said she pays about $12,000 a year in property taxes -- perhaps $2,000 to the town -- and has already taken out a reverse mortgage to pay her bills.

Wonder how much of that goes to pay the generous retirements of government workers?

[Kickass Conservative]

JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER LIBERAL GOVERNMENT SCHEME.
Think any of these seniors will be hugging a Democrat Presidential candidate at a campaign rally? Remember the lady hugging Al Gore who had to collect aluminum cans to pay for her drugs? You know, the one with the Millionaire son?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Any tax on homestead property is wrong.

[rabscuttle385]

Wonder how much of that goes to pay the generous retirements of government workers?

...or even worse: free benefits for illegal aliens!

[Razz Barry]

Illegals running up taxes is what’s happening where I live. I guess it’s going on all over. But, I remember reading, it may have been on FR, about New York City police officers retiring at close to 200 thousand a year. It all adds up. It probably does not bother them that old people, making less than nine thousand a year, have to go back to work to pay their pension. I know those making money off illegals don’t care that they pass the cost to the rest of us.