Yes, we don't have a state income tax but our property taxes here, in many areas, are higher than a typical state income tax would be. I don't resent paying my fair share. What I resent are politicians who think the answer to everything is to throw more money at poorly run systems. Education is one of them.
Yes, we don't have a state income tax but our property taxes here, in many areas, are higher than a typical state income tax would be. I don't resent paying my fair share. What I resent are politicians who think the answer to everything is to throw more money at poorly run systems. Education is one of them.
I don’t like property tax because I will never actually own my home/land. Even once the mortgage is paid we could lose everything should the tax burden become beyond our ability to pay. Every year they say they aren’t changing the tax rate, or they are even lowering it but then they turn around and raise the assessed value of our house to the point that if we were home buying today, it would not even be on the list of possible homes. I can guarantee I didn’t get a pay raise equivalent to the increase in the supposed value of my home.
And speaking from my personal experience, school districts figure that the way to solve any problem is to throw money at it. You should have seen the $$$ thrown at more and more and more and more video/audio equipment in autumn '20
Yes, we don't have a state income tax but our property taxes here, in many areas, are higher than a typical state income tax would be. I don't resent paying my fair share. What I resent are politicians who think the answer to everything is to throw more money at poorly run systems. Education is one of them.
I don’t like property tax because I will never actually own my home/land. Even once the mortgage is paid we could lose everything should the tax burden become beyond our ability to pay. Every year they say they aren’t changing the tax rate, or they are even lowering it but then they turn around and raise the assessed value of our house to the point that if we were home buying today, it would not even be on the list of possible homes. I can guarantee I didn’t get a pay raise equivalent to the increase in the supposed value of my home.
And speaking from my personal experience, school districts figure that the way to solve any problem is to throw money at it. You should have seen the $$$ thrown at more and more and more and more video/audio equipment in autumn '20