[lowbridge]

(Mayor James McCullough is a Republican)

[Arthur McGowan]

Property taxes are COMMUNISM.

[EBH]

And this is why “property taxes” should be abolished.

No one should lose their home to the government.

[Mouton]

Whenever I read stories like this I know there is a bad side to us here in North Florida: they look to where they can move where the taxes are far less but unfortunately they bring with them the values, ideas, and desires for government from “back there”. The other day there was a letter to editor in the local rag wherein some NE transplant was saying he did not underestand the “gun culture” here in the south because it was not that way “back there”.

My answer which has not yet been published was, if you liked it so much “back there”, why are you here?

[Red in Blue PA]

Nobody should ever lost their home due to taxes. This is entirely antithetical to what the Founding Fathers envisioned.

[ken5050]

Everyone is missing the key point in the story. Some 70% of the tax bill is for school taxes..that’s pretty much the norm in suburban communities in the northeast. The school budget is completely separate from the town budget.

[fruser1]

Before the income tax, the US pretty much only did property tax.

The core problem of high tax is high spending. If the spending were reasonable, the taxataion rates would not be tyrannical.

The problem w/the current income tax is that it’s not flat, but property taxes currently are.

Of course, folks could advocate a fed sales tax (VAT) but unforntunately, in today’s tyranny, that would only get added to the portfolio of gov’t income and not result in a reduction of income or property tax.

Per the mayor, he should check to see if he can get a partial exemption for age (he may already have, I don’t know). I think states w/onerous property tax have large credits for retirees.

Or, you can just move. No-income-tax states make up income through property and sales tax. So what you could do is live in a high property tax state w/low or no income tax and when you retire, move to a high income tax, low property tax state.

Since I don’t see the gov’t cutting spending anytime soon, this is pretty much what folks are going to have to do.

Of course, the mayor could just arm himself and say “make me leave” when they come to take his property away.

At least in that case, he will get his wish of living AND dying on his property.

[TalBlack]

597.00 a week just for the privilege of living in the home he “owns”.

[subterfuge]

Same thing happened to the mayor in Deltona Florida.

[WayneS]

Unless my calculations are incorrect, that’s $2.82 per $100 of property value.

Wow!

And here I was thinking that the $0.70 per $100 I’m paying in Virginia was too high.

[Chode]

must be an honest man, a RAT would of acquired enough income through illegal gains to pay the taxes...

[oh8eleven]

his property taxes to shoot up to $31,056 ... home was worth slightly more than $1.1 million.
That makes the tax rate about 3%, which isn't the real problem. It's the home value that's been artificially inflated over the years to separate a man from his money.