Pittsburgh Parking Spot Assessed At $287K (When will Pittsburghers revolt??)

WPXI - Pittsburgh ^ | 12/30/2011

[surroundedbyblue]

Pittsburgh residents are up in arms over a new countywide reassessment that has seen some property values triple or quadruple for tax purposes, but real estate attorney Richard Milesky Jr. thinks he can top them all.

Milesky's 18-by-10-foot parking space in his condominium complex has been valued at $5,000 in past years, but now it's supposedly worth $287,800, the Post-Gazette reported. For the record, Milesky's condo is being assessed at $228,700 -- up $55,000 from the last assessment.

Milesky plans to appeal the parking spot reassessment he assumes is a simple mistake.

The city has said anti-windfall laws will prevent it from collecting more than a 5 percent increase in property taxes, so it will likely lower millage rates to account for the huge reassessment increases

[surroundedbyblue]

What's hilarious is that Pittsburgh is up in arms over this, yet in November overwhelmingly elected a Marxist as county chief executive. What do you want, Pittsburgh???

[Walkingfeather]

There is nothing worth 10% of that in all of pittsburg combined...

[Michael Barnes]

The city is done for at this point.

[proxy_user]

If the parking spot were in Manhattan, it probably would be worth $287,000!

[brownsfan]

The bigger cities are just an example of the rest of the country. People won’t do anything until it’s too late. As long as the malls are crowded, and the smartphones all work, Americans will accept what comes their way. In fact, many Americans justify government overreach as being “good for us”.

That’s what I see.

[john drake]

At some point, the tea party needs to better morph in to a real tea party and fight taxation, government interference in every element of life, business over regulation, etc. on a fully integrated, national, state and local level or we end up in civil war. The issue is also it needs to be done at all levels of society, including more young people. The old folks, many of who are dependent on medicare and social security are less likely to fight the taxation part given they’re now so reliant on its benefits. It’s not too late, but it’s getting there.

[NonValueAdded]

The parking spot carries a higher assessment than the condo???

[Nowhere Man]

At some point, the tea party needs to better morph in to a real tea party and fight taxation, government interference in every element of life, business over regulation, etc. on a fully integrated, national, state and local level or we end up in civil war. The issue is also it needs to be done at all levels of society, including more young people. The old folks, many of who are dependent on medicare and social security are less likely to fight the taxation part given they’re now so reliant on its benefits. It’s not too late, but it’s getting there.

You said it. The Tea Party needs to focus on this. I think once Obamacare comes about or we see more of it, I think and hope the older people will "get it." We have two opposing views in this country that are 180 degrees out of phase. I'm afraid it might take a civil war and/or Second American Revolution to fix things seeing the path we are on now.

[USS Alaska]

People are voting with their feet, the census for Pittsburgh in 2010 was down 8.6% from 2000.

In 2010 there were 306,000 still living in the Burgh, when I moved out in '69 it was over 600 K.

The demonRATs have ruined almost all major cities.

Too much welfare, public housing, medicade health care clinics have taken away hard work.

Selling drugs and whores are the two growing industries in some segments of the city.

The inner city schools are a shambles, with three out of four black kids being legal bastards, and most not even realizing what that means.

It breaks your heart to see what the liberal policies have done to the black, inner city and while it's bad in the poor white neighborhoods, the rates of crime and kids without fathers isn't even close.

These are the fruits of LBJ and his Great Society Policy, which after it passed, he said, "Now we'll have these niggers voting democRAT for the next 100 years".

His plan is working, but look at the cost, both human as well as financial.

I hope that flop eared crooked Texas bastard is rotting in hell, he has earned it.

[Nowhere Man]

What's hilarious is that Pittsburgh is up in arms over this, yet in November overwhelmingly elected a Marxist as county chief executive. What do you want, Pittsburgh???

I know the sheeple here voted Democrat. All I can say is "does a bear crap in the woods?" Many people are like Borg Drones here in that respect. We had a chance with Raja, heck, we need new blood here anyhoo. The biggest jerk of all is Judge Wettick, he started this mess.

[Hacksaw]

What's hilarious is that Pittsburgh is up in arms over this, yet in November overwhelmingly elected a Marxist as county chief executive. What do you want, Pittsburgh???

Yeah, tell me about it. People get the government they deserve.

[brownsfan]

“People are voting with their feet, the census for Pittsburgh in 2010 was down 8.6% from 2000.”

And just like the Californians who flee to Washington State, and other places, they bring their liberal attitudes with them. So, the smaller communities near Pittsburgh, or wherever else these people flee to, will be ruined by liberal policies.

[Michael Barnes]

The line I love and have been hearing for years from folks around my age is “My dad voted Democrat, so I do.” Complete lemmings. Looking around at all the rusted out hulks of what used to be mills, it just does not occur to these people that unions and the democrat party has literally killed Pittsburgh.

[Nowhere Man]

True. Even though FDR’s policies started a lot of this, at least those Democrats can be counted on to defend the country unlike the Marxist trash we have now. The Democrat today “ain’t your father’s Democrat.” Still, that is a huge problem, because gramps voted for FDR in 1932 and Dad for Hubert Humphrey in 1968, they vote for Obama now. Obama is a totally different species from the likes of FDR, JFK or even Hubert Humphrey but they do not realize it.

[Hacksaw]

We had a chance with Raja, heck, we need new blood here anyhoo.

But Raja was one of those dot-head IT guys, probably rich too. You think these lunk-heads around here would vote for him?

The biggest jerk of all is Judge Wettick, he started this mess.

Wettick could have been voted out on retention, but people opted to keep him. I guess the majority of Allegheny County love paying high taxes. Good luck collecting them after people are done fleeing to Washington, Beaver, and Butler.

[blueunicorn6]

Does it have a charging station? The guy should put an extension cord out by the parking spot and ask the federal government to pay for it. I’ll bet he’d get a $300,000 federal grant.

[surroundedbyblue]

Yep!!! Agreed 100%

[Nowhere Man]

But Raja was one of those dot-head IT guys, probably rich too. You think these lunk-heads around here would vote for him?

I know. First, he's in IT and rich, that's one strike plus he's a "furringer" (foreigner), that's two. I have nothing against immigration just come here legally and understand you have to work, not sponge off the system. Raja did that, I commend him. Plus IT types think logically, we need somebody like that here in Allegheny County.

Wettick could have been voted out on retention, but people opted to keep him. I guess the majority of Allegheny (Agony) County love paying high taxes. Good luck collecting them after people are done fleeing to Washington, Beaver, and Butler.

Or West Virginia and Ohio. My best friend now lives in Tiltonsville, Ohio, near Wheeling. He married a girl from there and works in Wheeling. The taxes where he lives is 1/4th what we pay plus in Ohio, no vehicle inspections. I've given thought of moving down there with him. I know they got their share of lunkheads too but at least the taxes are cheaper. As to Wettick, the retention system does not work although I always vote "no" across the boards. I effect, it is a position for life unless you really screw the pooch. I think there should be term limits for judges.