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To: 1hedLyte

“what do you think about her position on eliminating property tax and replacing it with a “revenue neutral” sales tax.”

I thought it was crazy at first. I went to her website and downloaded the 40 page .pdf that explains it in a good deal of detail. It actually has some merit. The main change of the sales tax idea is that it covers almost everything. Even real property sales, so - you end up paying your property tax (sort of) either 1 time during the sale - or spread out over your mortgage payment.

When you do the math, its pretty easy to see a “revenue” neutral outcome, and it takes out the arbitrary “assessment” factor. For what its worth, ranches are generally “ag exempt” and this broad based tax would not exempt them as the current format does.

Also, for what its worth - “She” obviously didn’t come up with the plan. It was done by some think tank and pretty thorough. I’ll bet the guys that did the plan lit themselves on fire this morning after hearing her on Beck.


108 posted on 02/11/2010 3:50:27 PM PST by crescen7 (game on)
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To: crescen7; Jewbacca

Thank you. I see I have some homework do you. I live just outside of TX state lines and have some interest in what’s going on there.


124 posted on 02/11/2010 3:55:49 PM PST by 1hedLyte
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To: crescen7

In NC they have “revenue neutral” property taxes, which go up under the ever watchful Democratic machine’s eyes, tick tock. This is code word for “Democrat” and liberal, not conservative.


148 posted on 02/11/2010 4:08:08 PM PST by John S Mosby
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