Posted on 01/27/2009 12:54:41 PM PST by Golddigger3
This list is compiled with data from the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan tax research group. Using statistics from the 2007 U.S. Census American Community Survey, it calculated, by county, median property taxes paid on homes, median home value, taxes as a percentage of home value, homeowner median income and taxes as a percentage of income. Our rankings are based on the last measure.
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Interesting, work in the top 5, live in the top 20. I guess that means I’m ahead of the game.
I think it would be interesting to see the impact of personal property taxes on these numbers in addition to the real property taxes. I didn’t pay these in what is a high tax county in NY, but have to pay them on two vehicles here in what shows up as a low tax county in NC.
The majority of homeowners are usually conservative, because libs are partyers when young, and do not save much. I would bet that a larger portion of renters are libs...so what do they care how much taxes Americans pay. They want all public properties to be controlled for pristine evironmentalism, so they can visit for cheap at Public Parks etc. Living in all those apts with rent control, it gives them somewhere to go....just my opinion, not any statistics I could source.
Even more interesting in that the median income across almost all counties falls between 50K and 100K — the exact people Obama calls rich and is going to whack with new taxes.
I can’t believe Williamson is higher than Travis.
65 Williamson County Texas
70 Travis County Texas
This is somewhat misleading, as it reports on median taxes. I’m at 625; but in actuality, I’m in the top 50 in taxes paid.
My county (in TEXAS God bless her, with no state income tax either) is 405th.
Got ya beat at #669.
184 Pierce County Washington $2,676 $285,100 0.9% $71,740 3.7%
I just moved from #222 to #273.
The more liberal the county, the higher the taxes. You had to go allthe way to #346 to get the FIRST Tennessee county. Shelby (Memphis), of course. We’re hoping that when the New Madrid fault goes that it will reroute the Mississippi River east of Memphis and then we can make Arkansas take them.
#65.
#547!!!
Your conclusion is not valid. Obviously one cannot sell what one “rents” for a profit. Taxes reflect a payment for the social costs of private property.
If your car is impounded because of unpaid parking tickets does that mean you have only been “renting” it?
Not a very good analogy.
How about if you have a property tax on cars and the state takes the car from you if you don't pay.
Yeah, but 7 Texas counties appear in the top 100 of highest property taxes..
Property taxes have been in existance since our Founding and none of the Founders would agree with your incorrect description of them. They in no way mean there is no private property merely a recognition that human society has costs which result from private property.
Since the huge percentage of our soldiers were educated in public schools (another pointless target of your ideology) it must be recognized that they do a decent job of education. My elder boy went to public schools in Chicago and is currently a nuke on the USS Ohio. My younger went to a private high school and I see no advantage it gave him over his brother in terms of ability to think or his learning.
I notice they order it by $ rather than %.
That put me at #115. But for the low property values in this depressed rust belt area, it would be a lot higher.
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