Posted on 02/24/2016 7:17:42 PM PST by JSDude1
Rep. Rick Saccone stands on the House floor to urge for support of an amendment to a property tax bill that contains the language of HB 76, the Property Tax Independence Act.
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Property taxes make land owners into renters and goverments into landlords.
Exactly: this NEEDS to go viral (for instance I will repost this video to facebook, social media)
WE THE PEOPLE MUST make Property tax elimination/and reform a priority for voters.
That’s saying something, friend “Why can’t we be like Massachusetts”...
One outrageous thing being done in thriving housing markets is the practice of raising every house in the block to a level created by sale(s) of fully renovated property with stainless steel appliances and granite counters. This is grossly unfair to the rest, and especially the elderly on fixed incomes who have made NO improvements.
Every so often, the local tax assessor wants to come in and "inspect"'my house (I have ignored every such request. They're free to raise my taxes based on whatever assumptions they'd like to make). If they find that I've made improvements, they will increase my property taxes. Why? Because I can afford to improve my property, and therefore I must have enough to give the government leeches "just a little bit more"?
What if I worked a second job, evenings and weekends, so that I could afford granite countertops, renovated bathrooms, and a swimming pool? By what right do these government bloodsuckers come around and take MORE of my money?
Is my house suddenly somehow costing the township more? How? What additional services am I getting? What additional costs is the township incurring because of these improvements?
Yes, yes, yes. One of the more immoral actions of government. We are not vassals.
When you hear those stories on the news of people barricaded in their homes with the police in a standoff...and you never hear who they are, but you never get the rest of the story....
BINGO !
This is most definitely not a thread for followers of Henry George!
My grandparents have to pay taxes on their property that has a rainwater run off creek going through it.
But they aren’t allowed to fill up the creek and develop it because it’s a protected wetland. However the government makes them pay the taxes on it. Total bullshit.
Paying property tax is immoral, wrong and worth fighting over, literally. We are just wage slaves as long as we can never own our own place to live in.
Both income and property taxes are evil. They subvert natural rights and forcefully assimilate citizens into a collective.
Land-value taxes
I agree. Property tax should be one time and at the time of sale if at all. We support our schools via property tax. Strikes me that a sales tax would be far more fair. It would also hit everyone.
You have increased the value of your asset so they suck a little more blood out.
It is even more evil and unnecesary when the money is fiat money, and money can also be created in multiples out of thin air by fake fractional reserve lending.
Somebody please end this fascination with Henry George, end this rent to the collective owner.
You beat me to it. George was a socialist.
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