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Idaho proposes to eliminate most property taxes for main homes, raise sales tax to nation’s highest
Oregonian ^ | 3/6/22 | AP Staff

Posted on 03/06/2022 3:23:11 PM PST by mac_truck

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1 posted on 03/06/2022 3:23:11 PM PST by mac_truck
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Hopefully, Texas with the third highest property taxes in the nation, will follow suit.
2 posted on 03/06/2022 3:24:18 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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Yeah but people who live there full time, will they be better off? Its going to stifle purchases as well.


3 posted on 03/06/2022 3:26:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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but voter approved bonds and school levies would remain.

That’s what most of my property tax is. Screw this idea.

4 posted on 03/06/2022 3:26:54 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: mac_truck

Time to steal.


5 posted on 03/06/2022 3:27:53 PM PST by Born in 1950 (The coming horrors are certain.)
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Texas’ real sales tax is 8.25%. Cities, counties and such add on another 2% to the state tax.


6 posted on 03/06/2022 3:28:14 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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We already have a sales tax of 8.5% in Texas. Property taxes are through the roof!

When I retire I have my eye on Tennessee. Low property tax and low sales tax.


7 posted on 03/06/2022 3:29:40 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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California’s sales tax is way more than 7.25 % because each county and city can jack it up further. It’s 10.25% in Alameda County.


8 posted on 03/06/2022 3:29:51 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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So if you live just inside the Idaho border, you’ve got it made.


9 posted on 03/06/2022 3:30:59 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Exactly. Just an excuse to raise taxes.

Inflation is raising the cost of everything, so increasing the sales tax will put the double-whammy on people living paycheck to paycheck, while filling the state’s coffers.


10 posted on 03/06/2022 3:32:57 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: thegagline

It’s nice they put it to the voters. A legislator cannot promise one thing and not deliver. Like the initiative process in Calif. I guess. Otherwise there’s no representative government. Vote them in and they do what they want. Put your kid in the public school and they’re not yours for the day.


11 posted on 03/06/2022 3:34:40 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (S)
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Yes, please!


12 posted on 03/06/2022 3:38:33 PM PST by Irenic
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To: unixfox
When I retire I have my eye on Tennessee. Low property tax and low sales tax.

That’s where I’m moving back to when I retire. I had a sweet deal on a little over 200 acres outside of Knoxville. Check on getting the land green belted and you’ll save even more. I moved down to TX from TN for work, but will be heading back at some point. I seriously miss the mountains. Good people too.

13 posted on 03/06/2022 3:40:30 PM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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“Everything on this looks good, sounds good, but I just have this niggling feeling that it may not be as good as it all looks,” said Republican Rep. Linda Hartgen.


A tax is a tax. The issue is who is going to pay it.

where is the discussion on reduced spending?


14 posted on 03/06/2022 3:41:04 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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>>Texas with the third highest property taxes in the nation, will follow suit.<<

Right? Texas, supposedly the conservative bastion hasn’t been able to rid us of these punitive property taxes for decades.

What a hoot. Pay off your home mortgage and the state still owns your home.


15 posted on 03/06/2022 3:42:58 PM PST by servantboy777
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Low sales tax ? It’s 9.25%.


16 posted on 03/06/2022 3:43:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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“The move will bump Idaho’s sales tax from 6% to 7.85%, the highest in the nation..”

Pfft...Chicago is 10.25%. Pikers.


17 posted on 03/06/2022 3:43:43 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: thegagline

My thoughts exactly. $3600 a year for property taxes on my $175,000 home is just too big a bite in the butt.

Could be worse though. I could live in California.


18 posted on 03/06/2022 3:43:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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7.85%

Sales tax is HIGHER in and around New York City. It's just that some of it is State Sales Tax and some is County Sales Tax. So, e.g. Nassau County where I grew up is 8.625%, which is probably more than the profit on whatever item is being sold. (It was ZERO until August 1, 1965, and somehow we had everything that the folks who live in my house get now.) The NYC boroughs are all 8.875%.

ML/NJ

19 posted on 03/06/2022 3:44:40 PM PST by ml/nj ("If the Representatives of the People betray their Constituents ..." Federalist #28; READ IT!)
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Whenever govt engages in a gimmick like this — we will eliminate one tax but raise another, the net benefit is to government.


20 posted on 03/06/2022 3:50:39 PM PST by libh8er
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