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Easton, PA Man Pays Property Taxes in $7143 One Dollar Bills
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| Published on August 30, 2013
Posted on 09/08/2013 6:31:51 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
So this guy has a total bill of probably 15,000 or over...madness. I’ll be his house isn’t even a big one.
You guys are getting raped up there in PA...
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:37:07 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Red in Blue PA
If you think your own your property.. just stop paying your rent to the tax collector and see what happens.
Complete BS.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:40:42 AM PDT
by
cableguymn
(The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
To: Gaffer
Yep, we are. It is becoming a welfare state. I am not averse to moving, as I was at one time.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:40:57 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Gaffer
Forgot to add, there is a bill making its way through the PA legislature which would do away with property taxes and have a more fair system where everything is taxed, and thus everyone pays in.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:41:49 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: cableguymn
Every time I think about paying off the house, that is what stops me.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:42:41 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Red in Blue PA
They should be taxing welfare benefits.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:43:07 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Red in Blue PA
I don’t know how it is considered stolen when people sign up for it when they sign their deeds. Taxes are part of it when you sign the bottom line. Do I like it? Nope, but that does not mean that everyone knows about them going into it.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:43:07 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
To: Red in Blue PA
He should have paid them in pennies.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:44:44 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: napscoordinator
I dont know how it is considered stolen when people sign up for it when they sign their deeds. Taxes are part of it when you sign the bottom line.
They have carte blanche to raise taxes during the worst recession in 70 years. And they raise the rates by 2 to 3 times what "inflation" is. I never signed up for that.
Additionally, families living in apartments with 5 kids get schooling benefits of almost $60,000, yet do not pay in a dime.
How is that fair???? Please, explain that to me.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:45:29 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Red in Blue PA
Oh gosh. Really? You compare yourself to a renter who does not have anything to show for it at the end. You are better off.....you lower your taxes every year until the deed is paid and then get to sell the home for a MUCH higher price then you paid for it (if you wait at least 30 years). If you are jealous of renters then you are CRAZY! I would never want to rent. By the way, the rents go up every year too. I know in Annapolis you are paying rents around 1600 dollars and that is for a small apartment. I am paying around 2300 a month for my house....yep more but at least it is going towards something. My Mom’s home in Pennsylvania has a tax of around 2000 a year....I should be so lucky.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:54:14 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
To: Gaffer
$7K is cheap. Where I live, the median tax bill is $12K for a modest house in a decent town. The better the school district, the higher the taxes. I know many who pay $18-30K a year for their homes.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:54:17 AM PDT
by
NoKoolAidforMe
(I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
To: Red in Blue PA
“Additionally, families living in apartments with 5 kids get schooling benefits of almost $60,000, yet do not pay in a dime.”
Supposedly they pay indirectly through property taxes but even if that were true, the benefit received far exceeds the payment. The property tax was a good idea when only people who owned property could vote. Frankly, I’d remove voting from anyone who pays no taxes beyond social security and medicare. The notion that you can vote to remove money from your neighbors wallet is repugnent to me as that “money” is representative of having spent part of my life, a major part, in working for it while they are sitting on their cans collecting benefits. There should be an equitable way to ensure the truly disabled or aged are cared for but beyond that there is no free lunch.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:55:40 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
Mine is $1250 total County & School, $300 city for a 1500 sq ft. home valued at $155K. You people need to fire some public employees - very very many in my book.
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posted on
09/08/2013 6:57:28 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: napscoordinator
...you lower your taxes every year until the deed is paid and then get to sell the home for a MUCH higher price then you paid for it (if you wait at least 30 years). That used to be the case before the last housing bubble. Young DINKs buying $1M houses making interest-only loan payments on a 100% loan. Doable monthly payments coupled that are way way better than a comparable rent, with 1/3 return on interest payments each year through deductible taxes, building equity all the while. 5 - 10 years later cash it out with a good sized appreciation in selloff... That stopped and will never return again. Banks aren't loaning anywhere near 100% (or over like before) nor are they selling off their loans to some government backed bundled derivative concoction.
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:03:20 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Mouton
I agree with your post entirely. If you have no skin in the game, why should one be able to play?
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:06:55 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: Gaffer
Mine is $254 a year for a 2200sqft home, plus if I pay it by Feb 15th we get a 5% discount.
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:08:38 AM PDT
by
momto6
To: momto6
You probably have an over 65 no-school-tax benefit, don’t you?
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:11:19 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: momto6
LOL...people in Red England get sheared to the tune of 5, 10, 15,000 dollars a year (and worse) in property tax, and think nothing of it. That is; until I tell them how they are paying 10 to 20 times as much as other parts of the country.
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:13:43 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Red in Blue PA
> > Every time I think about paying off the house, that is what stops me.
You have to pay the property taxes anyhow. Why add in mortgage interest?
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posted on
09/08/2013 7:13:44 AM PDT
by
zeebee
(There are no coincidences.)
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