Roads are mainly paid for by a combination of general, sales, and gasoline taxes, not property taxes.Oh.. I didn't realize only seniors own their own home.
People that live in rural areas still require some services, with roads being a huge one. That is why even rural property owners pay property taxes to their county.
He cannot do that. It's a state issue.
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There are lots of things that are state issues and yet the states are subjected to federal blackmail to do as they are told.
That's why we are a post-constitutional nation.
The stupidity is the fact that "home ownership" is supposedly the American Dream, but once you have it you are forever in debt to your government. You never truly own it as you have to continue earning the rights to keep it.
From the moron who says revenue collections can't be shifted elsewhere. Dude, that was a really stupid thing to say!
Counties and cities have gasoline taxes? Do you even own property if you think that the gasoline tax pays for the city street in front of your house.
Yes. You have to pay for all those services that protect that property and allow you to keep it. Don't want police protection? How long before you don't own that property because someone bigger and stronger took it from you. Don't want the government to have a record of your ownership? How long before someone else claims it as their own and you have no legal recourse? It appears you haven't even read the most basic political treatises which explain how and why you pay taxes to protect you and your rights.
Cities are notorious for trying to lure businesses by promising no or low property taxes. How many businesses will stay in cities that want to increase their business taxes dramatically so home owners pay no taxes? The thing about problem solving is you have to look at more than just your desired outcome. You have to look at everything that can and will go wrong and plan for them.From the moron who says revenue collections can't be shifted elsewhere. Dude, that was a really stupid thing to say!
Are you retarded? Roads are not just county or city owned and paid for. States provide funding to lower levels of government for road maintenance, just as the federal government does.
I never said they county and city weren't provided some funding. They are not however provided all the funding. It's clear you have never had to pay an assessment for road work in front of your home. Most people roll those into their property taxes to pay over time.
In Arizona, you never have to pay an assessment for road work in front of your house. Last year, they did a chip seal of the entire neighborhood I live in and updated several speed bumps. The metro Phoenix area also is slowly putting a heat barrier finish on streets to lower temperatures from pavement.
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I wonder why there is a Phoenix city code for assessments for street work if they don't asses for street work
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How interesting that it's 110 degrees and daytime 24 hours ever day and 365 days a year. I don't think it's the government that's stupid.Still Beating the Heat in Phoenix: A Closer Look at Cool Pavement Pilot Program Phase 2 Results
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I will add that the Biden administration gave Peoria where I live millions upon millions of dollars to install ADA compliant handicap accessible crossings at all intersections that NOBODY WILL EVER USE! What a fucking waste of tax dollars that is.
That is utterly asinine. Like somebody's going to go out in a wheelchair on a 110 degree + day and tootle down the sidewalk...
The stupidity of 'one size fits all' government planning is astronomical, and the waste that goes with it universal.
There are no services that " allow me to keep it".
Last time I called 911 for a severely drunk driver on my road, I believe the quote was... I'm sorry sir. "I can't get a deputy there for at least 20 minutes".
Good luck.
Seriously? What percent of record keeping is funded by property taxes? Don't be stupid.
I have the title in my possession. My home is paid for. However, for people with mortgages, you think the bank might have an interest in defending property ownership?
It appears you are terrified of a consumption tax in place of a mandatory property tax because that would give homeowners a choice.
Careful there Sparky, you are swerving dangerously close to making a great argument in support of lower taxes for corporations. You know that is forbidden talk in your world. Stop it already.
The thing about problem solving is that government is rarely the answer.
Well, let's see...
I like your thinking, but I'd rather see a libtard tax. 95% tax on all trust funds that the recipient can be verified as a libtard. They could put me in charge with making the call.
Possibly, but all your competition just moved to the next community over and since you are the only business you are paying all the taxes in the city where you are and they are all paying much lower taxes so they can undercut your prices. But who would think that businesses would try to reduce their taxes?
I'm not asking the businesses to put up the revenue in place of property taxes. I'm asking for a consumption tax, a sales tax. Yes, some pathetic people need more services than I do, and the people should pay for it. What I'm saying is if the extra dollars are in my pocket because I didn't send my local their $5,200 this year, I (and most others) will have no issues paying extra tax on items we will likely buy anyway.
Damn, that’s a tough read without pitying you and the education system that clearly dropped the ball. First off, allow me to break the news: there are multiple ways to raise tax revenue, plenty of them. As a libtard, I’d figure you’d be a guru at dreaming up creative tax schemes, but apparently, knowing stuff isn’t your forte, lol.
There are a number of problems even with the constitutionality of the proposal. Congress, not trump, decides federal taxes. This is not even federal taxes, but taxes through the state. The constitution does not seem to even allow Congress to take away this state right.
Unless you rent? So someone has a million dollar home, they get it tax free. Someone rents an apartment, they pay property taxes indirectly?
There is no populated part of the USA without any police. If there are no local police, the state police fill in. If there are no state police, federal police fill in. We do not allow there to be a place without law enforcement.
Schools in the USA are mostly funded by property taxes.
Arizona requires private schools to be funded by property taxes, so back where we started.
