Posted on 06/02/2008 1:55:29 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We graded them from A to E. A tables were full of football players and cheerleaders and so on. E tables contained the kids with mild cases of Down's Syndrome, what in the language of the time we called "retards."
We sat at a D table, as low as you could get without looking physically different. We were not being especially candid to grade ourselves as D. It would have taken a deliberate lie to say otherwise. Everyone in the school knew exactly how popular everyone else was, including us.
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That's pretty scary. We have a state income tax but it's not particularly onerous, a sliding scale running up to 5%, sales tax in our county is 6% (that's 4% state + 2% local options that have to be voted on periodically), and there's a property assessment that includes a school tax. Around 28 mills so it's not too bad. No trash collection, we pay a private hauler or visit the scenic landfill, where they charge around 7 bucks for a pickup truck load. Water is pay as you go.
Real estate transfer tax was $1 per $1,000 in sales price last time I checked. Far as I know it hasn't changed in years. It's handy when you're checking comparables because even if the deed doesn't have the purchase price on it, the telltale real estate tax stamp is there.
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