Posted on 05/17/2025 2:15:41 AM PDT by EBH
Yes, the fancy new Haslam sports Arena for a team that hasn’t won in decades. Heck they can’t even put a decent team on the field. And they want money for a new complex or money to upgrade the current one. So that original tax that they added, now becomes a permanent one. Instead of a Haslam setting aside money in his budget For all these new needs.
Well, some of us are not willing to take the apathetic way out.
Me as well, I’ll run to find this petition, where is it?
Like all the Social Security benefits recipients demanding that the money no longer be taxed?
I used to think our side was different from their side when it came to wanting to get government spending under control. MAGA populism has convinced me otherwise.
OHIO, like Michigan is not a Blue State, it’s a Red State with a half dozen Blue Cities, captive by liberal policies and politicians in those cities.
Too many taxpayers appear to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, growing attached to their oppressors and unable to imagine a system with fairer taxes. They seem to embrace their subjugation.
This is what bad government gets you. They never adjusted the tax burden on homeowners as prices went parabolic. Now those tax bills are a second mortgage. Property tax should be minimal, at most.
Maybe that’s what ‘s happened here. Our property tax, before we sold our house, was quite reasonable. Low, in fact.
But our sales tax in the county is 9%, 10% inside city limits. We recently had a referendum on the ballot clawing back county property taxes AWAY from funding city of Tuscaloosa taxes.
Also, the Tuscaloosa mayor, a big lib, always has his reelection campaign on a weird day when no one is expecting it. So he always wins.
I would not be surprised that many home owners would go “scorched earth” before giving up their homes to a tax forfeiture.
The government attempt to ban all gas appliances now makes sense.
Most of you are familiar with home property taxes and complain. Business property taxes are outrageous.
I disagree with increases in sales tax and income taxes in all forms should be eliminated. Nobody has mentioned that property and excise taxes are a threat to the concept of owning something. If you need to pay an annual tribute even though you purchase,maintain, insure and are responsible for said thing then you do not own it.
There is absolutely no reason why local services cannot be funded by user fees and, in the case of schools, tuition; but then what everything costs would be completely transparent and not as easy for the pols to push agendas.
Tennessee gets almost everything right, this is one where it does not. Citizen power is strong (with two exceptions - one city has great BBQ and the other great music.
A vote like this could pass in many states, especially if the unlawful votes were eliminated.
It’s not apathetic to fight for spending cuts as opposed to cutting a particular tax.
Except his, of course.
The property tax is incremental confiscation. Here it’s around 3% annually. Assuming you keep your house for about 33 years, the state will have grabbed the entire value of your house.
You only think you own the property. You don’t. You are in indentured servitude to the state. You must pay the tribute every year.
They hide the percentage by calling it a “mill rate.”
Paging Howard Jarvis!
But for Howard Jarvis and Prop 13 in California - which dems have been trying to overturn for decades in order to raise property taxes, I’d be paying $35k instead of $5k in property tax. The website has a property tax calculator that people can go to to see what they’d be paying if not for Prop 13.
Tyrants like Newsom are twisting themselves into knots to get rid of it.
I'd say let the trach be private haulers and instead definitely do the roads.
Otherwise, sounds good to me. I have no problem with parks, a community accessible place. People need outdoor places and if the whole neighborhood is built up, there's no opportunity for enjoying the out of doors, although a park is an artificial form of it. It's still a good place to enjoy a little nature.
All property tax levies could be fixed in the amount of tax they generate. If property values increase then a vote would be required to approve the additional money. Renewable levies work this way except at renewal time they are touted as “no new taxes” so voters are deceived into believing that their tax bill will not increase. A law that says the levie’s millage will reduced to hold tax revenue level would help. Permanent levies should work the same way.
“unrealized gains” = asset seizure. Total commie BS!
Y’all let this happen.
As to a revolt. Yeah, right. About as likely as the Brits getting justice for their govm’t deliberately protecting child rape by the savages they illegally imported.
Yeah, right.
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