Property taxes
We're going to write an editorial on property tax relief. Specifically, we're looking at relief for senior citizens and the disabled. Do you think the state's homestead exemption is generous enough? Now, such property owners with annual incomes above $25,000 can't apply for it. Do you think the income amount should be increased?
Will the bonds Guilford voters approved be too burdensome for those on fixed incomes? Are they too burdensome for you? Should relief be extended to others beyond those groups?
Or is this an issue that we shouldn't even be concerned about? Do you think people should move if they can't pay the taxes on a house? Or do you think declining property values will eventually provide relief?
Lots of questions.
Hope we hear some answers from you.
Elma Sabo
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There is but one way to get all of those "renters" concerned about propery taxes. Make the montly rent statement break out how much goes toward the landloard's property tax!
I suspect that most renters could care less about rising property taxes because they think that only home owners pay property taxes. WRONG!
Posted on May 28, 2008 12:46 PM
In regard to the above response, I would like to take it even further and include an amount on college student tuition so that if they vote to approve bonds, they help pay for them. I will never understand why we allow college students to vote on bonds if they will not be helping pay for them if passed.
Posted on May 29, 2008 3:35 PM
I like the suggestion that if you hate living in a semi-literate society so much, you should find a county in the Northwest territory where they have no schools, and move there.
Or, you could move overseas, to a nation that has the lowest tax rate you can find. You know -- the kind of nation that John Hood longs to transform the U.S. into -- a nation that doesn't have those public schools, or those pesky things like EPA, consumer protection agencies, FDA, Social Security, banking regulations, etc. Be sure to bring plenty of barbed wire, body guards, and fuel for boiling water when you go.
Posted on June 3, 2008 12:49 PM