Move that shovel gramps - or do you want us to take your ranch?
Posted on 12/26/2007 6:32:25 AM PST by Sam's Army
Under “free health care” at age 76, arthritic, suffering from sciatica, needing a walker to get around, and unable to meet her tax obligations she’d probably qualify for the special Terri Schiavo treatment.
The school had a student group out drumming up support for it.
Isn’t America grand. We can go all over the world spending taxpayer dollars to make life better for the people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Africa, South Korea, Europe, South America, etc. but we cannot take care of our own seniors. Something is wrong folks.
It sounds to me like they are replacing people that currently hold those positions with these senior citizens that are undoubtedly doing the same job for much cheaper wages! This is mind-boggling - soon the government will own all of the people AND their property...
Oh yeah, I guess that's the point.
$12,000.00 seems pretty steep. Perhaps it is time for her to downsize. Any NYers know what the assessed value is on a $12,000. property tax bill?
I am in Central New York. The assessed value of my house is $332,000. I pay about $10,500 in property taxes. Does that help?
BTW: The school district is about to put up a referendum to build a turf field, club house, stands, offices for the High School sports teams. That little gem will raise my taxes if it passes.
Yeah, wow. Youz guys have quite a tax rate.
If I lived in the nation’s third highest property tax area, I would MOVE.
The thought of cutting taxes never entered his mind.
Move that shovel gramps - or do you want us to take your ranch?
In WV, a $100K house has an assessed tax rate of < $500.
Then again, you get very few services.
extortion or slavery..................
Yes we do. Our taxes go up by 5-6% a year and have been for the last 5 years or so. And the Town raises our assessment every year. We got socked with a $32,000 jump in our assessment between January and September of this year and we only found out about it when our tax bill came.
Oh, and over $6000 of that levy is school taxes.
In California, we were headed down your tax road until Proposition 13 popped up in the late 70’s. Now it’s wrongly blamed for every failure of government services and our rates are low. Liberals government officials have another copout and we all have a decent taxrate. Guess that’s win/win...
In Kansas, my property taxes continue to climb every year. However, where this state really gets its honest residents in the short hairs is what they tax us on our vehicles, motorcyles, and boats. Our personal property taxes have to easily be the highest in the country. However, more and more Kansans are registering vehicles, etc. in other states to evade that tax. Only the honest Kansans are left paying out the @ss for these things. Our legislatures haven’t figured out, if the thing isn’t stationary, like a house, people will seek other alternatives, to evade any enormous tax.
The rural properties are down as low as $8 per assesed value. then we have special property tax savings, if you have a farm where you grow trees, or produce livestock or hay, you get a property tax, of way less. On our property, big acreage, 2 houses and buildings, we pay about $600 a year in property tax. All this in a very liberal state, done with initiatives voted by the people and the powers that be can do nothing!!
Come on, she’s only 76, uses a walker, has sciatica, and arthritis! She’s still breathing, right? And as long as she can breathe, she belongs to the compassionate and loving Democrat Town Supervisor.
We’ve got much the same problem in Texas except that we don’t have an income tax so the property taxes here are astronomical. It’s a big reason why so many of my co-workers are retiring to Mexico or to “decline” states like Louisiana and Mississippi. Facing tax problems like this into our elder years makes the final outcome look welcome.
In high tax states, they also have to pay for it in front-end alignments, because much of the money from high taxes is either wasted or goes into the pockets of corrupt politicans and their cronies. It’s a way of life in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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