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While we're at it, abolish primary-residential property taxes after you've paid in long enough. I've paid in for over THIRTY YEARS, the amount has doubled in the last 12 years, it's KILLIN ME man, is this absolutely necessary?? It's why older homes fall into disrepair, some of them are so elegant & beautiful and should be tended to with the bloated tax money they steal from the owners who love them. (Yes, I live in a Blue State ??)
What we need is a constitutional amendment that prevents the government from taxing property or wealth. Property and death taxes need to be permanently done away with. I should be able to buy 2,000 acres in the middle of nowhere and live off the land without ever paying the government a penny if I choose to live that way. They shouldn't be able to make up excuses to steal my land.
It's not going to happen until people take a stand. Even if you follow all the rules, if you aren't willing to die to protect what's yours then it's not yours.
My father pays over a dollar an hour in property tax. Every hour. Every day.
He has owned that place clear for twenty or so years. His misses the tax bill it's gone.
This isn't theft how?
I paid more in property tax than income tax last year. And we get nothing for it.
Yes, yes and yes. You can pay off your house, but the property taxes never go away. Enough already.
Curious though how we would fund the local government without some property tax. True that they are way too high in many areas, but wouldn't a reasonable property tax be the most fair since property owners have the most to benefit from functioning infrastructure?
Sales tax
I am all for a consumer tax where EVERYONE pays.
That thinking shows you are still dependent on the system. Still a slave. Let go of the idea that it is necessary. It is a LIE.
I don't think we want anarchy.
There are many ways that local governments make money. Here's a site that shows some of their revenue. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sources-revenue-local-governments
Don’t we have local taxation? On top of the Federal Taxation.
But only home owners and land owners are taxed! Those that live in Apts. and Fed. Housing don't pay property tax., Well maybe on the car they drive.
It's rolled into their rent so it's invisible to them, did you think the landlords pay the property taxes out of their own pocket?
Blue state. That explains the bloated property taxes.