Posted on 09/08/2013 5:12:21 AM PDT by maddog55
Bwahh Ha Ha Ha, you own it! That's a good one!
I’d be “old and tired” if I had raised 11 kids!
My county has a loophole. If you live in a trailer on your own land then they tax you at the “unimproved land” rate which is virtually nothing. If you take the wheels off it becomes a permeant structure then the real properties taxes start. I own about 12 acres with a really nice house that I built in 2000. I am going to section off 5 acres and buy the nicest airstream whatever and live in it and sell my primary residence. Never take the wheels off!
For your tax dollars you get schools that are churning out marxist children by the millions...swell.
I recently received a notice that the mill levy will be increased by 15% (which, I am assured, "does not necessarily mean an increase in taxes").
If the property was taxed on its purchase price, those of us who have been paying in for a while (decades) keep paying at the same rate, roughly.
The area is growing, fast, and there is a lot of new construction. Property values have skyrocketed, whether or not you want to sell.
The new folks who get the new sewer and water lines, sidewalks, and streets, would pay more, because they paid more for their houses, commensurate with the increase in construction costs for the new infrastructure. Otherwise, those of us in the older part of town are buying infrastructure for people who just moved into houses allegedly worth multiples of what ours are worth, bolstering the value of their property while our streets wait for repairs.
Cute but I would make him count it 6 or 7 times before he got a receipt. And if the office closed during the count, he’d have to start over the next day.
“The most your home should be taxed is what you paid for it”.
I live in Belvidere N.J. right across from Forks Pa. In Jersey if they kept the tax at what you paid for the house they would just raise the tax rate & you would pay what you are now paying. We are screwed either way.
“The tax collector is lucky that it is not all in pennies.”
A roll of pennies weighs 4 oz. so, $1 is half a pound.
He would need a good truck to do it. It would be a hoot though!
LOL ... maybe where you live ... and WTF are YOU doing about it?
but the welfare RATS say i'm not paying my Fair share
Why the voters of ND voted down Measure 2 (to eliminate the Property tax) is beyond me, except that there was big (out-of-state) money and a slick (if inaccurate) ad campaign blasting the measure.
Are you now paying property taxes based on the 220? Probably not.
The key part of this story is that THE SCHOOL BOARD is in charge of setting the property taxes. Thewy have the largest chronic appetite of all.
The same issue is coming to a head in Washoe County in Nevada.
The single person head of the school board would have the authority to set/raise & determine the property tax rates in all of Washoe county. Many homeowners are up in arms over such complete authority.
I’m outvoted by socialist parents who are comfortable stealing money from other people...you have children in public schools? Then you pay for them...leave the rest of us alone. (Never happen, of course.)
We have to pay for the free school breakfast for everybody, haven’t you heard?
40+ years ago I was a Ice Cream Man for Good Humor. We didn’t even count pennies then. We weighed them and put them in $20 sacks at the end of the shift. LOL!
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