I found this interesting:
“Up in the middle-class Spencer Estates in the Bronx, retired NYPD Detective Victor DiPierro, 49, paid $1,700 in taxes in 2003, the year he bought a two-story single-family home the city says is worth $512,000. Today he pays $6,141 — nearly twice what the mayor pays on his $1.5 million row house.
“It’s just not fair. We’re blue collar people. We’re not millionaires,”
Just a regular ‘blue collar’ 49 year old retiree...government retirements will be what finally bankrupts us all.
Already the case here in NJ, and as I understand it CA as well; an acquaintance retired at 46 after 25 years as a local cop, and we’ll be supporting his arse (statistically) for even longer than that - with health benefits and all.
Nobody wants homes in NJ now because they know they are just being farmed by our government worker caste to provide an upper-middle class living to these people.