This specifically is literally a town of 800 still owing 6 million dollars after they spent their little coffers and their insurance paid out what it was going to pay. They are literally taxing the home owners exactly what it cost to pay the settlement I doubt that is happening all over the place.
Theirs a case for some form of malpractice on the part of that town
their liability insurance paid $1 million
wtf, for an entire town, including schools? This is no longer the nineteenth century. It’s not all that unusual for individuals to have that much liability insurance. It’s not even that expensive
This particular situation is a little more extreme, but you’d be wrong. Homeowners are seeing their property taxes raised by criminal percentages nationwide. Thankfully most are fighting back.
This mfer not knowing how municipality finances work…
Fight back against corporate greed making every part of your life more expensive, including your cities and counties work and maintenance projects, which requires them to raise taxes to stay solvent.
But here in KC people saw 100% to 150% increases, which was so ludicrous that the state tax commission stepped in and capped increases. We also just voted to recall our county executive who defended the assessments
And our scenario is not unique. It’s happening everywhere in this country.
Even though there is a legal process for tax assessment, that doesn’t mean it isn’t abused or corrupted. Also doesn’t make it okay for the county to levy unfair taxes to homeowners.
What you actually mean is that the housing market is hot dumping a bunch of unearned wealth on every asshole who bought a house in the last 50 years meaning that with the extra wealth you get to pay additional taxes.
Fuck you for shitting on people who own a house to live in.
Fuck you for shifting the blame away from corporate house flippers and other people who buy houses as investments instead of as a fucking place to live.
Fuck you in general for implying that economically forcing people out of their homes because some rich fucks want them is the fault of the homeowners.
there is no wealth there. What do you not understand about NOT having to cave to the salivating infinite greed of the “market”? If the homeowner actualizes that opportunity then fuck them too and tax that sale all you want. A system that lets you buy a house and then slap a subscription on top with government eviction hanging over your head if you ever fall behind should not exist.
Certain things are paid for by the municipality or county and incur costs to same. People. The people that use those resources like schools roads fire safety EMS etc can play all sorts of games about where they “officially” live but they can’t hide the actual house that their big fat butt sits in so it makes sense to tax that.
What you are saying is that its OK to tax someone who barely makes enough to live by taxing their income but if bob has 2M in property we shouldn’t tax THAT. Do you know how much income tax we should have to charge to make up for that? It’s a LOT and 95% of the benefit will accrue to those who are in the top 10% of wealth whilst much of the cost will be put on those in the folks on the lower rungs.
Shall we also forego taxing the 7 - 75th investment property?.
Can we maybe admit that having put $20,000 into a house that is now worth 2M isn’t a terrible problem to have and that grandpa is still the winner even with taxes?
No, not even a little bit. What if grandpa is poor as fuck, bought that house forever ago, and intends to die in it? You want to make him homeless because he can’t pay taxes? I’m not on with collateral damage, the taxes can be made up elsewhere, like places where economic activity is taking place.
If grandpa sells the 20K house hes living in for 2M, feel free to tax him for 2M and make him homeless, that’s his own stupid ass fault.
We here in Kansas City are voting today to potentially recall our county executive over massively inflated property taxes.
This seems to be happening all over the place.
This specifically is literally a town of 800 still owing 6 million dollars after they spent their little coffers and their insurance paid out what it was going to pay. They are literally taxing the home owners exactly what it cost to pay the settlement I doubt that is happening all over the place.
Theirs a case for some form of malpractice on the part of that town
wtf, for an entire town, including schools? This is no longer the nineteenth century. It’s not all that unusual for individuals to have that much liability insurance. It’s not even that expensive
Yep under insured and bad people in charge ignoring all the raping for years
This particular situation is a little more extreme, but you’d be wrong. Homeowners are seeing their property taxes raised by criminal percentages nationwide. Thankfully most are fighting back.
This mfer not knowing how municipality finances work…
Fight back against corporate greed making every part of your life more expensive, including your cities and counties work and maintenance projects, which requires them to raise taxes to stay solvent.
I know how they are supposed to work, sure.
But here in KC people saw 100% to 150% increases, which was so ludicrous that the state tax commission stepped in and capped increases. We also just voted to recall our county executive who defended the assessments
And our scenario is not unique. It’s happening everywhere in this country.
Even though there is a legal process for tax assessment, that doesn’t mean it isn’t abused or corrupted. Also doesn’t make it okay for the county to levy unfair taxes to homeowners.
What you actually mean is that the housing market is hot dumping a bunch of unearned wealth on every asshole who bought a house in the last 50 years meaning that with the extra wealth you get to pay additional taxes.
Fuck you for shitting on people who own a house to live in.
Fuck you for shifting the blame away from corporate house flippers and other people who buy houses as investments instead of as a fucking place to live.
Fuck you in general for implying that economically forcing people out of their homes because some rich fucks want them is the fault of the homeowners.
Asking people to pay a share of their unearned wealth the same as all of us have to pay out of our earned wealth is totally shitting on them…
there is no wealth there. What do you not understand about NOT having to cave to the salivating infinite greed of the “market”? If the homeowner actualizes that opportunity then fuck them too and tax that sale all you want. A system that lets you buy a house and then slap a subscription on top with government eviction hanging over your head if you ever fall behind should not exist.
Tax income. Tax barter. Tax churches.
Don’t tax food, water, or shelter.
Certain things are paid for by the municipality or county and incur costs to same. People. The people that use those resources like schools roads fire safety EMS etc can play all sorts of games about where they “officially” live but they can’t hide the actual house that their big fat butt sits in so it makes sense to tax that.
What you are saying is that its OK to tax someone who barely makes enough to live by taxing their income but if bob has 2M in property we shouldn’t tax THAT. Do you know how much income tax we should have to charge to make up for that? It’s a LOT and 95% of the benefit will accrue to those who are in the top 10% of wealth whilst much of the cost will be put on those in the folks on the lower rungs.
Shall we also forego taxing the 7 - 75th investment property?.
Can we maybe admit that having put $20,000 into a house that is now worth 2M isn’t a terrible problem to have and that grandpa is still the winner even with taxes?
No, not even a little bit. What if grandpa is poor as fuck, bought that house forever ago, and intends to die in it? You want to make him homeless because he can’t pay taxes? I’m not on with collateral damage, the taxes can be made up elsewhere, like places where economic activity is taking place.
If grandpa sells the 20K house hes living in for 2M, feel free to tax him for 2M and make him homeless, that’s his own stupid ass fault.
Sure thing.
Thank you for your opinion. I hope you have a nice Wednesday.
I don’t think Frank White was raising taxes for sex abuse tho right? Probably just all those police lawsuits. -_-
Probably, but the bigger point here is that it’s a tactic being used across the country for various reasons.