Posted on 06/10/2022 1:15:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Illegal aliens are known to cost U.S. citizens billions to support, but rarely is that experienced as directly as it is now in Portland, Maine, where city officials voted to raise property taxes in order to house 1,200 "asylum-seekers," along with 500 homeless.
According to WGME :
PORTLAND (WGME) — Portland property taxes will soon be going up by 4.8 percent.
Last year, families with a $400,000 home paid about $5,200 in property taxes.
With this new increase, it'll be around $5,550 for that same home.
That's an increase of about $350.
Portland's finance director says without federal help, it will cost the city $9 million to house hundreds of asylum seekers and people experiencing homelessness.
To pay that $9 million, he says the city council would have to raise property taxes by 4.8 percent, which is exactly what they did Monday night.
That's right: the taxpayers will pay. Since this is solid-blue Portland, all one can think is, you get what you vote for. That said, even the bluest of blue cities has many people who didn't.
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What’s astonishing here is the logic of the argument — the feds dumped these illegals in Portland, or else dumped their relatives here, but apparently has no intention to pay for them — and Portland itself is too feckless to demand it, so Portland is paying.
That’s what Portland votes for.
Just don’t come to Florida when you get tired of it, or we’ll stake you out in the marsh and let the ‘skeeters exsanguinate you.
Won’t be long before they just take your home for housing for foreigners.
It’s cheaper to get some buses and bus them to DC
I guess that stolen elections have consequences.
A good reason for the border states to fly more illegals to maine.
Time to start calling the city fathers the city mother*****rs and then vote them out of office.
Time to start calling the city fathers the city mother*****rs and then vote them out of office.
You aren’t wrong about them taking your house.
Dems are talking about doing away with single family homes
Yup. Stupid should hurt.
Bus then to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It must be cheaper because it is closer to Portland, Maine.
Insanity.
So far the 3rd Amendment is the only Amendment of the Bill of Rights the left hasn’t attacked, so it’s only a matter of time.
dullard Dem voter: Duh, I dunno what I love the most, high crime with carjackings and home invasions, gas prices and food prices shooting higher, or paying higher taxes for loafers on welfare here illegally while they plan drug deals and rapes while I’m at work. Just love my Dems. Where’s my handful of mail-in ballots to vote again?
Let me guess, Portland’s city council is filled will Republicans
Working hard, buying a house, paying taxes — that’s a suckers game.
Smart people don’t do none o’ that. They get their stuff for free.
Make sure your kids take spanish in high school.
Send them to Mexico for the summer after they graduate to buid up that tan and perfect the speech.
Toss ID, walk back in.
May the parents who voted for the Demonicrat city council members of Portland, Maine, have their children and grandchildren spit on their graves.
And in contrast my supergovernor strikes again
2. I would rather pay an increase in gas taxes to buy bus tickets for illegals than property taxes for their housing.
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