How are we full property owners if we pay property tax!?
BTW. Property tax is added to the cost of rents too.
Althea (12-03-2021)
Property taxes are a pain in the ass.
Who the hell needs, schools, cops, firefighters, streets and sidewalks (does red state America know about sidewalks?), parks, playgrounds, and if you live in a civilized place, trash pickup?
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Althea (12-03-2021)
BattleofHodow (12-03-2021), Matt Dillon (12-04-2021)
A fallacy of exclusive premises. That is, one doesn't result in the other necessarily. All of what you list can be paid for in other ways than property tax. There are countries that don't have property taxes.
https://www.globalfromasia.com/tax-f...rab%20Emirates
In many rural areas, firefighting and things like ambulance service are paid by subscription not property tax. Trash pick up is done the same way. Parks and playgrounds are rarely paid for by property tax but rather come out of general revenue from sales taxes. Schools in most locales are the primary recipient of property tax but could be paid for by other taxes or subscription too.
I find, in particular, property tax on a primary personal residence onerous and unnecessary. Sure, tax commercial property, second and third homes, but a primary residence should be owned tax free. That means once you pay for it you owe nobody anything and it's yours forever. That would be the right thing to do. That would turn America into a country of owners of their own homes and people could get away from having to pay rent or being homeless. But the Left in particular, doesn't want you to be an owner. If you were, you'd never vote for them or their Socialist policies.
Matt Dillon (12-04-2021)
It is an easy observation to make throughout the globe that the most civilized places with the best quality of life are the places that have the highest taxation.
It's just a fact.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
In my area property taxes are about 10K A year.
More than half goes to the schools.
But, I don't think the difference between 1K or 6K going to schools makes much of a difference.
A lot of it is also sports spending.
Besides, many countries with far less school spending do a lot better than the USA on educational PISA scores like China, Japan, Estonia, and Poland.
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