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Offline Eagler

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Property tax
« on: Yesterday at 08:47:12 AM »
Talk about a rip off...



Talk about killing it is just noise imo as these thieves can write their own tax bills and reap the $$$..

Hoping somehow it changes as it's criminal to those of us now on fixed incomes..retired  :old:

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 08:59:56 AM »
Lot of talk in Texas about reducing property taxes and there has been some reduction but not significant imo.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 09:21:13 AM »
Lot of talk in Texas about reducing property taxes and there has been some reduction but not significant imo.

Texas has near the highest property taxes in the country.  This will blow your mind: "Texas has higher property taxes per capita than California, despite California's higher property values."

When I was working living in an apartment, I loved not having income tax.
As a retired land owner, I hate high property taxes. ;)

And property and sales taxes are highly regressive.  Depending on who and what phase of life you are in, some people are perfectly fine with that.  I was.  ;)


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Re: Property tax
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 09:36:39 AM »
I took another look and the recent reduction was more than I thought. Primary residence and senior (65+) exemption is now $200K. They really gouge us where I live with school taxes. Gotta pay for that 50 million dollar highschool football stadium they are building a mile down the road. 
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 09:40:19 AM »
I took another look and the recent reduction was more than I thought. Primary residence and senior (65+) exemption is now $200K. They really gouge us where I live with school taxes. Gotta pay for that 50 million dollar highschool football stadium they are building a mile down the road.

I'm still trying to figure out why I have to pay for fishing license because the state care of lakes and wildlife has to be user paid, yet I pay exorbitant school taxes and have never had a child enrolled in any district.

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 09:48:49 AM »
Property tax is theft. Plain a simple. Just another way to rob us blind. Insurance didn't exist yet so people only had to pay that. Now we are paying exorbitant insurance on top of exorbitant property taxes. Its destroying economic growth and making life much harder on Americans. Then you find out your schools suck and your city/county officials dont know how to manage money and cities and allow homeless to trash the streets paying 0 taxes at all. Thats how Portland was. Absolute criminal what they have got away with.

The only tax we should have is sales tax. Everyone pays it. Everyone has opportunity to have variable tax paid based on what they buy. No one can cheat it. No loop holes. No keeping people in their place because they'd rather have handouts instead of taking a raise. Or dont want a raise to avoid the higher tax bracket. A sales tax makes sure the cities are kept clean to encourage tourism, who pay more taxes when they buy things. If you only have an income tax and no sales tax but consider yourself a tourist town, you are hurting your own citizens while not making anything off tourist. How stupid. And why are paying for permits, licenses, car registration, and all this crap they still cannot manage well, when we already pay close to 50% tax already. Its completely out of control.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 12:03:10 PM »
The only tax we should have is sales tax.

I assume you understand the economic argument on why sales tax is regressive?

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 12:25:38 PM »
I never thought I'd see anything serious in moving to end property taxes.

I like that idea very much.  Because I don't like that, if there are property taxes, you are renting your property from the state and never actually own it out right.  You have to keep paying, and if you can't pay, they take it from you.

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 12:29:38 PM »
I never thought I'd see anything serious in moving to end property taxes.

I like that idea very much.  Because I don't like that, if there are property taxes, you are renting your property from the state and never actually own it out right.  You have to keep paying, and if you can't pay, they take it from you.

At this stage in life I like the idea very much. ;)

Yet roads need to be paved and police and fire need to be paid and schools need to be built.

Waste should always be hunted down and purged, but it does require revenue to operate a civil society.








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Re: Property tax
« Reply #9 on: Yesterday at 01:11:34 PM »
At this stage in life I like the idea very much. ;)

Yet roads need to be paved and police and fire need to be paid and schools need to be built.

Waste should always be hunted down and purged, but it does require revenue to operate a civil society.

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #10 on: Yesterday at 01:55:01 PM »
Property tax, most taxes, pay for services we take for granted. No taxes, no nothing.

Is there tax gouging? Absolutely. No doubt.

Raising taxes usually means the state/county intends to spend more than their current intake, or spent themselves into a hole, like IL. That state is well beyond political corruption, everything is corrupt.

In the 90s, in IN, downstate where the capitol is, they tripled taxes in NW IN (purple) but didn’t touch anywhere else (red). A lot of elders lost their homes. They took that money down state for their pretty roads, didn’t spend  dime in NWI. All the roads and bridges went to crap, until bridges started falling, then they spent here. They took money from the sale of a toll road (I-90) in NWI, spent all that billions down state.

Taxes are a must, who decides is what matters. Ppl down state here keep voting them in while they eat dirt. IL = corrupt, IN = stupid thieves.

If you!re a snowbird and you don’t want your roads plowed, end taxes.

This subject cannot be not political. Just sayin. Taxes = politics, politics = taxes.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #11 on: Yesterday at 02:08:54 PM »
With today's home and property inflated values it's forcing some from their homes...

How is that even legal..

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #12 on: Yesterday at 02:24:22 PM »
With today's home and property inflated values it's forcing some from their homes...

How is that even legal..

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Because those who make laws and spend taxes do not care about you, but should. This comes down to party habits. One is for people one is for corporations. Simple.

IL is too far gone fir ANY party to fix, its been both, same results

NWI is suffering bigly from the flight from IL. They fleeing from massive taxes, crowd our roads, and won’t even bid on a house, they will throw $5k-$10k on top if asking price just to get it. No homes left, and if you do find one it’s 100k over priced because ppl from IL will buy it because even massive prices are cheaper than living in IL. And their crime cones with it. Thank cod IN will throw an army at them, now jails are over crowded with Chitcago lead water drinking idiots.

Consider this. 35 mile commute to Chitcago last year for 160 shifts, the commute for the yr was $10k. Because that toll road I mention was privatized and they quadrupled the tolls to show money fir share holders. 2 tolls fir me, $30 round trip just for tolls, parking now $25-60. Cost me $75-100 per day to work in Chicago.

Yep, some make a real regrettable mess if how taxes are done. That side does nit care about you, someone else will buy and pay it

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #13 on: Yesterday at 02:47:22 PM »
With today's home and property inflated values it's forcing some from their homes...

How is that even legal..

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Off the coast of GA, there are several islands of different sizes.  Every time a bridge was built to an island that had no bridge, all those that had lived simple lives there their whole life would be pushed off the island because of property value added tax burden. 

Taxes are a necessary evil.  I do not mind paying taxes but i draw the line on increased milage rates that adds to inflation tax increases.

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Re: Property tax
« Reply #14 on: Yesterday at 03:03:51 PM »
I understand the need to paying for things (roads, etc.).

But I don't like property tax being the way to do it.  You should be able to own your house, not rent it, I feel.