Posted on 05/20/2022 10:34:05 AM PDT by hardspunned
Anne Van Donsel said she didn't quite believe it when her hometown of Burlington, Vermont, last year sent her a new property tax assessment stating that the value of her home had doubled — raising her property taxes by 20%. Her property taxes jumped to about $12,000 a year, up from $10,000, a bump she said is adding to the financial strain as inflation pushes up the cost of food and other necessities. While Van Donsel appealed the assessment, she was given only a small reduction in the value of her home, which didn't make a dent in her new tax bill.
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Gee, I thought Bernie Sanders’ Vermont was as close to paradise as one could get.
Most states these days have limits on how much they can raise the value of someone’s home.
Apparently, Vermont does not.
“Beware of Texas as a retirement option.”
We were considering retiring to Texas and decided not to do so.
The main risk that I saw was that an ongoing flood of illegal immigrants and public services given to those folks would explode property taxes.
It is a risk—not a certainty—but it was not a risk we were willing to take.
Someone has to pay to educate and feed (at school) all those illegal interlopers coming across the border.
Corporations will buy up all the foreclosed property. You will own nothing and you WILL be happy.
Out-of-towners are moving into our rural county and buying up everything that is for sale—and paying cash so they don’t have to worry about those bank appraisals. Locals are being priced out of everything! Our property taxes are going to double here as well.
I support the 90% Plan.
If they assess your home for so much, you should have the option of handing them the keys for 90% of their valuation.
It will never happen...
They’re a comparative pittance.
Public sector salaries, pensions, and cadillac health bennies cost us all far, far more.
“I agree...what will it take?”
A breakdown. When people can no longer post pictures of their food on the internet because:
A - They can’t afford internet access
B - They have no food
That’s when change happens. That’s why Dems want the constant give aways. Keeping the people poor is ok, but when the people get so poor their life is in danger, things happen.
Apparently the tax base in Cochise County is growing, because my property taxes actually go down next year.
“California proposition 13 protects homeowners from this problem.”
Indeed. If not for Prop 13, probably half the homeowners I know in the Bay Area would have to sell their houses and move. I’m talking about people paying $1,000-$7,000/year under Prop 13 but instead of the $25,000 to $36,000 they’d be paying on 1.2% of market value.
In Cali we used to have conservative mayors make good governor candidates by running their cities better than lib dem mayors. Now all cities are pretty much run the same and there is no conservative bench from which to get good candidates.
What is conservative about statewide initiatives (introduced in Cali by the Progressives at the time) that impose statewide mandates over local issues?
Here in Florida, my wife and I own two residences, a primary home and vacation condo and the combined property taxes are not close to $10,000/year, at one time we owned a 3rd property an office condo where my wife ran her business from, and the combined property taxes never were over $10,000/year.
The Florida Constitution limits property taxes on your primary homestead to a maximum increase of 3% per year.
Combined with no state income taxes, now you know why people move to Florida.
Normally they reduce the mil rate but they still make a killing off the increase.
Prop 13 was a taxpayer revolt in California to guarantee homeowners statewide that they wouldn’t be crushed by ever-rising property taxes. It’s nice that you can rely on the largesse of on your local Republican city council. Not all of us are so fortunate.
Next? Been going on here in Texas for some time now.
California has one thing right - Prop 13.
It limits property taxes. Home paid for, nice neighborhood, 3 bedroom 2 baths - $1,300 property tax.
Now when the home is sold the property tax will be set at the value of the home when sold.
If it was not for Prop 13 I would be able to afford to live here.
Most of us, probably 99.9% of us, have color of title to our property. Color of title is NOT allodial, the state has the allodial title, while we are left with a deed of X, or title of X, a lesser form of title. For example, the allodial title to an automobile is at our state registry - the so-called MCS or MCO.
One can shed the color of title and go allodial - in the case of land property, that means establishing a land patent for it.
The process can and has been done by some... a few public cases you may have heard of, where the would-be free man/woman gets in trouble. But, many others that understood the process and do it properly get out from the chains of being a corporate citizen to the UNITED STATES, or of its many subsidiaries - State of X, Town/City of Y.
Good luck with that.
So you’re okay with mob rule when the mob agrees with you. Got it.
Exactly why I picked AZ over TX.
Exactly why I picked AZ over TX.
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