[NYer]

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[riri]

Why does anyone stay there?

I left NY 16 years ago. You can't drag me back there for any reason.

[EGPWS]

She and her husband, Charles, each in their late 70s, are retired New York City teachers, who relocated 15 years ago to Ulster County. They pay $9,600 a year in school taxes.

Oh, the irony.

[pnh102]

Property tax is just the government's way of reminding us that we do not own anything. We just rent it from the government.

Property tax at any level should be outlawed. It is a completely unfair form of taxation. Even the income tax is far more fair than the property tax.

[therightliveswithus]

NY’s in deep, deep trouble

[GlockThe Vote]

I live here and the taxes are unreal. I really cany tyope what I want over this issue.

[calex59]

Let’s think about property taxes. A person can afford to buy a house on some(real)property, could be large property or small and the house could be luxurious or plain. However, regardless of that the owner is taxed on the price of the house, year after year after year as if he/she makes that much money every year. Property taxes are totally wrong and the founding fathers should have recognized that. Paying rent to the government on property you own outright is outrageous and tyrannical. A one time tax, when the property is purchased is one thing, a yearly stipend to the government is totally wrong and should be done away with.

[ronnie raygun]

One word..........PALADINO!

[Gaffer]

She and her husband, Charles, each in their late 70s, are retired New York City teachers, who relocated 15 years ago to Ulster County. They pay $9,600 a year in school taxes. The high costs mean their community cannot be as economically and ethnically diverse as the Shebars would like.

I am heartened to hear this. The Great State Government of New York is doing its level best to force these two libtards into a 'new' community where their neighbors will be the ones whose government supported lifestyles will do their level best to divest them of all the crap they have......

[Tawiskaro]

[Tzimisce]

The greedy, thieving taxpayers are finally going to get what’s coming to them.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

This is exactly what will save Florida at some point in the upturn of the economic cycle (whenever the hell that is) - the driving out of heavily taxed New Yorkers (and other north-easterners) who will once again flock to FL. As long as FL resists the temptation to institute an income tax - we’ll be sitting pretty to pick up those with the discretionary income to buy a second home in FL or retire early or simply move here under any circumstances.

Another reason to move, tertiary to the tax motivation, would be the plethora of funny place names (like Cannarsie and Sacandaga, etc.).

[Cicero]

We lived in Scarsdale for a number of years, and had a fairly big house because we have a lot of kids. It was a convenient commute to the city, and the schools were liberal but excellent.

But we moved out in 1987, partly because the property taxes were getting unaffordable. I hate to think what they are now.

[cornelis]

But even with New Yorkers paying, by some measures, up to 40 percent of their income to sustain schools and local governments and help raise $45 billion in local property taxes statewide,

With all of that and the GOP still gets around 50% of the vote for the White House. What happens when the retired geezers and widows are no longer there to send $100 to DeMint & Co.?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

My property tax here is now over 10% of my income, and they keep demanding more.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Democrat Mantra: “I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”

[bgill]

I’m in Texas and my property taxes have gone from what amounted to 2 WEEKS of take home pay to 2 MONTHS of take home pay (same job with pay increases) in about 10 years. I grew up in this house and thought I would live the rest of my life here. For the past few years, I’ve struggled to make the tax payments. Now that we’re retired, I honestly don’t know how we’re going to manage it.

[The Comedian]

Pensions for union teachers from Public schools account for almost two-thirds of local property tax burden outside New York City, and their annual costs per student now range from about $15,000 to $25,000 per year, far above the national norm.

Fixed.

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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[wintertime]

the property tax burden has grown at a rate double that of wage growth.
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Property taxes = government schools!

Behind every property tax is a government school and piggy teachers whose salaries, pensions and gold plated benefits have grown faster than those in the non-government workforce.

The only way to drive down property taxes is to move toward vouchers, charters, and tax credits. Then work to completely privatize K-12 education.

By the way, what ever your government schools says it takes to educate a child DOUBLE that figure. Government schools have accounting practices that would make an Enron accountant blush.

[Inwoodian]

Tell teachers that they have to teach classes with 30 or 40 students in each class. Then lay off the surplus teachers. Works fine in the Catholic schools.