It's always interesting how conservatives have such a childish way of viewing the world. It's like they don't understand anything that is more complex than 2+2. Do you really think that if you buy a house there is no cost after the purchase? The home has costs. Many of those costs are societal costs for your home. Even if you collect the taxes in a way other than property tax, the taxes will still be collected and if you don't pay your taxes the government will take property to pay the unpaid taxes. If a city were to not collect taxes from homeowners and instead collect it from commercial property you would quickly find yourself as a city with no commercial property.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
Property/School taxes should be a shared burden. State taxes should be raised in order to lower the burden on the homeowner.
However, if you want local services, someone is going to pay for them. Your suggestion would beg the same exact 'burden' question by smokers/drinkers
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
I hope that those who are quoting me are not expecting replies because I cannot read any of their posts.
I've got the vast majority of the board on ignore.
Sorry. Please feel free to reciprocate.
For the most part, I make declarative statements, not conversation.
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
So how do you fund schools/cops/services?
I pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation. I say the burden should be shared by everyone in the state. Renters included. Most renters will claim that taxes are built into rent. That isn't necessarily true.
Property taxes were a tax deduction on income taxes until trump decided to make Blue states pay more.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Guno צְבִי (12-03-2021)
Other than hotels, I don't don't believe in privately owned rental residential property. Not full time housing.
I believe that the government should nationalize all rental residntial property and run it on a non-profit basis.
Otherwise, multi-unit housing should be run on a condo basis by owner-occupants.
I'm a democratic socialist for the most part, but here is where I dip my toes into communism just a little bit.
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
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