[2ndDivisionVet]

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

[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.

[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?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Any tax on homestead property is wrong.

[Nextrush]

This tax slavery idea has come to school districts in my area where the elderly can “volunteer” to pay their property taxes.

[Bear_Slayer]

Property taxes!!

Another way to make slaves of people, demonstrated by the fact that they have seniors whipped into submission.

Do menial labor or oyu will lose your land and homes.

It's bullsh!t

[Erik Latranyi]

You buy property with after-tax income.

The government taxes that property every year.

If you can’t pay the taxes, the government takes your property or offers you the opportunity to “work it off”.

Liberals call chain gangs “cruel and unusual punishment”, but do not flinch imposing the same on honest citizens.

[Manic_Episode]

BEN: Ohh! What wouldn't I give to work off my taxes! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of working off my taxes. Ooh oooh oh oh. My idea of heaven is to be allowed to work off my taxes... just for a few hours. ..... They must think the sun shines out o' your arse, sonny.
I've been here five years because I couldn't pay my taxes on my cardboard box! They only hung me the right way up yesterday! You lucky, lucky bastard.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Intense discussion here from yesterday.

[Bon mots]

Enslaved by the state.