Albany screws with the real estate marlet with its STAR program. Makes it easier for geezers, harder for young families to stay. Not a recipe for a healthy, growing state.
[[Albany screws with the real estate marlet with its STAR program. Makes it easier for geezers, harder for young families to stay. Not a recipe for a healthy, growing state.]]
Yeah, the geezers who worked their entire life to build a life and pay off a home only to see confiscatory taxes threaten the loss of it. Taxes need to be lowered statewide. School taxes are becoming untenable. Upstate is intentionally being depopulated. A welcoming business climate need to be encouraged and fracking needs to have started yesterday.
All of which will never happen.
The classic Dem state. A wealthy elite and a welfare class they support. The middle class gets destroyed or works for the government.
“Makes it easier for geezers, harder for young families to stay.”
My state has insane homestead laws for seniors. My uncle who was worth 1 million dollars and a nice house was only paying $298.00 per year property tax.
It won’t be changed because we have lots of seniors and they won’t vote it out.
My cousin who inherited my uncles house now pays $2800 per year on the same house