Move that shovel gramps - or do you want us to take your ranch?
great, rather than lowering the taxes, or giving Senior Citizens...who have been paying their entire lives..a tax break, they would rather enslave them for $7 per hour. Scumbags!!!!
I thought only eeeeevvvvviiiilll corporations forced senior citizens into financial difficulty? When will Congress investigate?
I think I may have spotted the problem. What's the difference between slavery and ...
I am 56 years old and the taxes on my home are now over $6,000. I want to be able to keep the home in the family, passing it down to one of our sons, but with those kind of Minnesota taxes it may be impossible.
We just passed another school levy which will raise our taxes even more. The school had a student group out drumming up support for it. These kids think there is nothing wrong with taking 10% of people’s income just for real estate taxes.
I live in Alabama, 4000 sq ft all brick, sodded yard with sprinkler, pool, etc., and my 2006 annual taxes were $1169. Of course I'm doubtfull that I get the level of gov't services that she gets!
And the crazy thing is that these same senior citizens will likely continue to vote for the party that will continue to raise their property and every other tax, because “Republicans don’t care about the elderly and want to force them to eat cat food”.
The other day my Mom called.
She wanted to borrow money.
For food.
Again.
I told her she could fix my car.
As usual, though, this article gets it completely backwards. "Seniors are paying waaaay too much in taxes, what are we going to do *for them*".
Instead, the story should be "This town's property tax policy is completely confiscatory. Where should the local pols slash spending, so that the taxes can be lowered?"
I hate "jornalists".
Look ma..tax slaves
and libs love it.....
Isn’t the minimum wage in NY at $7.15/Hour?
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.
$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?
The thought of cutting taxes never entered his mind.
Move that shovel gramps - or do you want us to take your ranch?
extortion or slavery..................
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!!
How about once you pay off the mortgage on your home, you no longer pay property taxes?
Only $7 an hour? How can these people afford their daily ration of cat food at those wages??!!...
Seriously though, it never occurs to these people that they desperately need to cut their taxes, instead of putting Grandma to work for the County to work off her tax debts....