Taxes

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

Good grief. Don't you people have schools and roads to fund? My property tax this year will be over $6000, and that is considered cheap for the area! And my lot is tiny- barely a third of an acre.

Wow.

Location, location, location......

I've got a 4 bedroom house, on 5 acres, with an inground pool. Before the real estate market hit the fan, it was worth about 250K, and my taxes are 2K, and I thought that was high!? Well, for here, it is.

I believe our state passed a 1% cap on homeowners property taxes, and 2% on commercial properties, a couple of years ago.

And I DO agree with the no kid rant, on taxes. BECAUSE the people who have 6 kids, are almost always, the ones who don't pay ANY taxes. Which is bullsh*t, in my book. Those who can't afford kids, shouldn't be having them. But it seems like it's always the ones who can't afford them, that keep shooting them out of their like basketballs.