Excellent article.
The author hits on many points I have been hammering away at for years. And I’m glad people are finally starting to attack “Fast” Eddy, the epitome of the scumbag politician.
From the article:
“Many seniors, who have paid off their houses decades ago, are forced to sell because they cannot afford the skyrocketing property taxes.”
This is a disgrace that any “empathetic” society should be ashamed of. And this is not happening just in Philadelphia. It is happening in any town where the elderly have lived for decades, building their town into an attractive place to live.
And this disgusting tactic of raising everyone’s property taxes to pay for new spending is part of the reason why the elderly cannot afford medical care and medicine.
What I have proposed for years is to eliminate property taxes on the primary residence of those who are retired. As long as yow owe property tax, you never fully own the land and your home, even after paying for it for 30 years, rather you rent it from the government.
Eliminating the property tax as I stated above not only gives people true ownership of their property, it enables them to pay for their own medical costs, a fiscal change that makes perfect sense and that is necessary.
Of course, none of this has a chance when the government is run by power-hungry Statists who pay the entitlement class for their votes and who collude with the unions to control business.
Amen to that. You never hear libs and lefties crying about how inhumane it is for the elderly to be forced out of their homes by taxes. Anyone who ran on such a platform would likely carry any state.
Outstanding remarks.
I want to retire HERE, not in Florida or other state. And this is a very expensive place to live. I hope the public mood for fiscal restraint and cost cutting (ala governor Christie in New Jersey) infects our state as well. The insane track we’re on will is doing us in.