Is anyone else's property taxes going through the roof?

[ScubaGuy]

But I though taxes were a good and patriotic thing.

You should be proud to pay higher taxes

NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:28 AM
Original message
Is anyone else's property taxes going through the roof?
   
Edited on Thu Nov-25-10 09:30 AM by NNN0LHI
We recently discovered that at the rate our property taxes are rising, by about the same time we get our house paid for the property taxes alone are going to add up to be more than the combined amount of 12(A years worth), of our initial house payments which included principal, interest, property taxes and insurance when we bought this house 21 years ago.

So when we finish paying for this house we will owe more per month just for taxes than we were paying for everything combined when we bought this place.

Anyone else finding themselves in this same situation?

Don

Township75 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:33 AM
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4. This is the money that gives living wages/salaries...
   
to the local govt employees, the teachers, the police, and the firemen. It is what we as Dems should fight for.

IN my area income taxes are going to go up to pay for the pension fund that has doubled since 2006. It's important that we not only walk the walk but talk the talk when we say we support teachers, unions, and a living wage for everyone. So I don't mind.

NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:36 AM
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8. I should support making my wife and I homeless in a few years?
   
You are joking aren't you?

Don

Township75 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:42 AM
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11. No I am not.
   
Should all of those employees be homeless because the state (taxpayers) don't want to pay them anything?

Or should they just live in a slave like status, expected to work without compensation?

Democrats stand behind the unions, teachers, police, firemen, librarians, etc. We support paying them properly.

ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:48 AM
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18. wow...that's some ****ed up thinking right there
   
screw that person out of the home they have on some bullshit "all of those employees homeless" crap.

bugger that shite...

sP

Township75 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:50 AM
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20. Ummm, yeah....
   
because if you can't pay property taxes you get thrown out of your house into the cold with nothing. Exactly!

what did you say about crap?

ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Thu Nov-25-10 09:53 AM
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22. and jacking people's rates through the roof is a good idea too
   
let's make as many people homeless as possible...since you seem to be so concerned about all those homeless gov't employees. wages are stagnant or falling, people aren't spending like they used to, companies aren't making money and hiring like they used to so all those lovely tax streams go stagnant or fall as well...

so let's **** over all those poor assholes who bought houses...

sP

[Carl]

They do seem to get very conservative when it is their own money being taxed.

[diesel driver]

I have one question.

Whose mole is ProdigalJunkMail?  He's way too sane to be a regular DUmmie.

[franksolich]

But I though taxes were a good and patriotic thing.

Oh now, Don, the grouchy old primitive, this "NNN0LHI" primitive, lives in a blue city (near Chicago) in a blue state (Illinois) run by a corrupt party machine.

Don's in the twilight of his years, his late 50s, comfortably retired from a life-long union assembly-line job with a really good pension and solid medical insurance--and in a few more years, he's going to get social security retirement, too.  Don's all set for the rest of his life, nothing to worry about.

Ever since he could, Don's voted for the local, county, and state machine politicians, and is perhaps even proud of never having voted anything but machine.

If Don thinks his taxes are too high, it's Don's fault, and the primitive needs to understand that.  But he won't.

[Ballygrl]

My property taxes are more than my mortgage.

[JohnnyReb]

I'll be 65 years old shortly....my property taxes will be going down.

  ....at the blue state DUmmies.

[Chris_]

Down here in Red State Hell, once you hit 65, the city/county freezes your property tax rate in perpetuity. 

Blame those damn Republicans.

[zeitgeist]

Oh now, Don, the grouchy old primitive, this "NNN0LHI" primitive, lives in a blue city (near Chicago) in a blue state (Illinois) run by a corrupt party machine.

Don's in the twilight of his years, his late 50s, comfortably retired from a life-long union assembly-line job with a really good pension and solid medical insurance--and in a few more years, he's going to get social security retirement, too.  Don's all set for the rest of his life, nothing to worry about.

Ever since he could, Don's voted for the local, county, and state machine politicians, and is perhaps even proud of never having voted anything but machine.

If Don thinks his taxes are too high, it's Don's fault, and the primitive needs to understand that.  But he won't.

Don may meet the dude "rude awakening" when he goes for that SS bonus money.  Lots of talk about visiting means testing on those drawing pensions, not just state, local and federal workers the way it is now.  If that comes to fruition the wailing and moaning will be deafening if you pardon the expression.   It is a chickens coming home to roost thingy.  Hope Don likes chicken, broiled, fried or stewed.

[franksolich]

Don may meet the dude "rude awakening" when he goes for that SS bonus money.  Lots of talk about visiting means testing on those drawing pensions, not just state, local and federal workers the way it is now.  If that comes to fruition the wailing and moaning will be deafening if you pardon the expression.   It is a chickens coming home to roost thingy.  Hope Don likes chicken, broiled, fried or stewed.

I could be wrong, but I don't think I am--I think Don, the grouchy old primitive, is the one who went to work at the assembly-line while still in high school, his senior year.  A union job, with awesome benefits.  He worked 30 years, until he was 48, and then retired with a big pension.

But being a Democrat, a liberal, and a primitive, I'm sure Don's going to be happy to share what's "due him" with others who have less.  After all, the primitives always boast about how they care about the less-fortunate.

[dandi]

I think mine actually went down about 5% this year.

[Evil_Conservative]

This is the money that gives living wages/salaries to the local govt employees, the teachers, the police, and the firemen. It is what we as Dems should fight for.

Let's crack skulls for higher taxes.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Suck it, DUmmies, you got exactly what you've been fighting for.  Now I only hope you're too damned poor to relocate to someplace where the citizens had a better grip on reality, so you don't ruin it too.

[true_blood]

Suck it, DUmmies, you got exactly what you've been fighting for.  Now I only hope you're too damned poor to relocate to someplace where the citizens had a better grip on reality, so you don't ruin it too.

H5 earned.
 

[Chris_]

Amen. 

The state of North Carolina even has a special area set aside for them.  Cary = Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.

[crockspot]

Property taxes was the first issue that started me on my journey from soft-headed liberal to right wing curmudgeon. There may be hope for a few of those DUmbasses.

[NHSparky]

Dear DUmmie,

I just got my tax bill.  $2500.  FOR SIX MONTHS.  Eat shit and die.

And I'm thinking Township is a mole--and a decent one.  The DUmmies fail to recognize that level of sarcasm.  Then again, the only thing that has kept us from becoming another MA or Maine is the fact that EVERY public employee in every town (state or local) has their salaries published in the local papers.  Kind of hard to justify a 10 percent payraise when the local chief just retired with a $125K a year pension for life and $250K his last year on the force because he sold back 10 years of sick time.

[true_blood]

Dear DUmmie,

I just got my tax bill.  $2500.  FOR SIX MONTHS.  Eat shit and die.

And I'm thinking Township is a mole--and a decent one.  The DUmmies fail to recognize that level of sarcasm.  Then again, the only thing that has kept us from becoming another MA or Maine is the fact that EVERY public employee in every town (state or local) has their salaries published in the local papers.  Kind of hard to justify a 10 percent payraise when the local chief just retired with a $125K a year pension for life and $250K his last year on the force because he sold back 10 years of sick time.

I love that idea! (the part in red.)