Liberal Austin homeowners surprised to find they have to pay all the taxes they voted for

Hotair ^ | 06/02/2014 | Erika Johnsen

[Paladin2]

"the property tax should be abolished.."

It's a partial wealth tax.

[ChocChipCookie]

They all say that...”It’s not that I don’t want to pay taxes...”

Uh huh

[jmacusa]

Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.

[workerbee]

when one has to pay for the things one has voted to fund, that decision becomes less flippant.

There it is, short & sweet.

As that California lib put it: "Of course I want the poor to have healthcare, but I didn't think I would have to pay for it!"

[Durus]

If they put in a sales tax wouldn't it really just result in subsidizing liberals pet projects? Why would the entire state want to support the whack job Austin culture?

Let them pay for their own stupidity.

[angry elephant]

And there are the dumbass renters who vote for every park, yada yada.

And are stunned that their landlord raises rents because his property taxes increased.

[Bernard Marx]

Liberals always think that “other people” will have to pay for the things they vote for. It is always a surprise to them when reality slaps them up side the head.

I doubt they ever become aware of actual "reality." I'm sure the "big picture" she has in mind involves having "the rich" pay for the stuff she votes for. These people believe in Utopia and the Tooth Fairy.

[Milton Miteybad]

Texas has no state income tax so the municipalities gotta make it up somehow.

100% right. And private property owners in Austin are really behind the 8-ball from the outset because so much of what passes for a tax base in Austin is off the tax rolls because it's state or city property. That means an even greater burden falls upon the ordinary property taxpayer in Travis County.

You'd think that an informed voter in Austin who works for a living would have reckoned with that reality long ago, but in the case of this Gretchen Goober person, I guess not.

[all the best]

Free-market suggested swapping local property taxes for sales tax?
Are you kidding me? Just another way of taking money from folks to feed leviathan. How about reducing the size and scope of government so taxes would be less oppressive.

[skinkinthegrass]

OH! the shock! ..It's others' peoples taxes, when YOU vote for it;
but when YOU have to pay it with our own $$$$, it's a different story.

[M-cubed]

Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”<<

Hey Gretchen..You tried with your votes, but now.... Its time for YOU to address the “big picture” u created...put the barrel in your mouth and pull the damned trigger...You'll feel much better about yourself and your votes shortly after...

[Theodore R.]

So many are so uninformed that they do not know there is a connection between property taxes and monthly house payments.

[Mark17]

Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.

LOL, they give idiots a bad name.

[Theodore R.]

Liberals aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, but they are, to paraphrase Al Haig “in charge here!”

[Bubba_Leroy]

“But I just voted for a bunch of government spending. Someone else I supposed to pay the taxes.”

[Michael.SF.]

In Fredricksburg last year I was in a conversation with an Ex-Austinite (sp?) and proud Obama supporter. She said she moved from Austin because it was “too liberal, even for me.”

[Clay Moore]

Right here!

I suggest we have a "stupidity tax." Then Gretchen could enjoy 100% tax rates.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gretchen: Drop dead. You voted for it. You own/owe it.

Good luck in your new Obama-approved paper box house.

Dumb ahole. What did you expect, lower taxes?

Some people are pepertually stuck on stupid.

[zeugma]

Every few years, liberals try to get Texas to adopt an income tax. Strangly, they find many takers on this truely stupid idea. Fortunately, we've been able to beat them back time after time.

High taxes are supposed to be painful you stupid schmucks.

[A message]

“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for the government to spend, spend, spend, spend every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I don't want to pay for it and I can’t afford to live here anymore.

I second your Bwhahahahaha.

Libs would be cute if they weren't so dangerously dumb.