“and then you have to pay taxes on the property every year forever...”
Your post allows me to say this (This is not directed at you, Kellis):
You stupid conservatives sat on your fat asses for 40 years, never attending local council meetings or county board meetings. Now you bitch because property taxes are high.
Well, surprise, surprise. You, you dumb-bunny conservatives, allowed left wing Marxists to take over your local government because you were too busy fishing, adding an addition to the kitchen or working overtime to make more money.
I worked in local government for years, and it was impossible to get you up off your butts and devote one hour a month attending local government meetings. Then when your taxes went through the roof and you couldn’t nail a picture on the wall without paying off a fat bureaucrat, you sat around scratching your ass wondering how that happened.
Duh!
If you want local taxes reduced, run for your local council seat. If you don’t want some bureaucrat telling you that it’s illegal to cut down a tree, show up at your county land use board (which shouldn’t exist in the first place) and start screaming at these fascist pigs. Go to these meetings by the hundreds and tell these pigs that you’re the boss and their happy rides on your backs ends NOW!
Get up off your fat butts and take back your neighborhoods. Then you won’t see high property taxes. And you’ll be much happier, too.
My, My! Aren’t we snippy?
Well, it is very apparent that you have not been around long enough to know how politics work.
The rules are:
1. Do everything and anything to stay in office, whether legal or illegal.
2. Never, never (as a politician) introduce an item to a local, state or federal public forum or meeting without first making sure that it is already a “done deal” and all of the players have selected and simply let the voters spew and fume over it when introduced. This is always the case.
Anytime any level of government introduces a bill, project or regulation for review...it is a done deal BEFORE being introduced to the taxpayers.
Politicians are in it for themselves and not for you. They will tell the public anything they wish to hear and those people will vote them in every time. If you tell the public what they don’t want to hear you will not be in office long.
To sum it up, the sad fact is that our political system is not made up of managers and fiscally responsible individuals, it’s made up of nothing more than “yes men and women.” In all cases they leave office with more than they came in with.