I object to the whole concept of taxes being based upon the supposed value of my home. I have spent time and money (employing contractors and buying supplies from local businesses) and I have to pay MORE than the guy down the street who lets his house go to pot thereby decreasing property values for the rest of us? People who cram 4 or 5 public school attending kids into a crackerbox should pay less than me because my house is on a bigger piece of land?

 

How does the "value" of my home impact the cost of running the town? I'm already subsidizing people who have never heard of a condom (or a lawnmower for that matter) why do they get to pay LESS than me despite consuming a much greater share of the town budget?

 

The whole system is another wealth distribution scheme. It's not designed or intended to be fair and equitable, so it never will be.

I object to the whole concept of taxes being based upon the supposed value of my home. I have spent time and money (employing contractors and buying supplies from local businesses) and I have to pay MORE than the guy down the street who lets his house go to pot thereby decreasing property values for the rest of us? People who cram 4 or 5 public school attending kids into a crackerbox should pay less than me because my house is on a bigger piece of land?

 

How does the "value" of my home impact the cost of running the town? I'm already subsidizing people who have never heard of a condom (or a lawnmower for that matter) why do they get to pay LESS than me despite consuming a much greater share of the town budget?

 

The whole system is another wealth distribution scheme. It's not designed or intended to be fair and equitable, so it never will be.

Wow! Good one!

Agree 100%.

 

Years ago I used to say, if lived in the same development as a friend of mine with the same house, I'd pay the same taxes as him, but I have no kids in school where he had 4 in school, putting a much bigger burden on the schools, using more water, creating more garbage, plus at the time he was getting a $1000 credit per kid on his Federal taxes. I didn't get shit, nor use near as many resources, but I'd be paying the same taxes.

 

Ridiculous.

Actually, I am fine with paying into my town's public school system, even though my daughter does not go there. In theory, anyway. It is good for everyone that each new generation gets educated to a reasonable standard.

 

My issue is that my taxes are determined based upon the alleged value of my home. Why? Someone please show me how the value of my home has any bearing on the cost to operate the town. It infuriates me that I pay more than people who cost the town more just because I have a tenth of an acre more property or one more bedroom. How about a flat tax? Put together the budget, triple it to cover the corruption, graft, inefficiency and plain incompetence of the government and divide it by number of households in the town. Done. I will still be paying more than my cost, but at least I won't be paying more than the people that disproportionately drain the township.

 

The current system is lot more Marxist than Jeffersonian.

Agree 100%.

 

Years ago I used to say, if lived in the same development as a friend of mine with the same house, I'd pay the same taxes as him, but I have no kids in school where he had 4 in school, putting a much bigger burden on the schools, using more water, creating more garbage, plus at the time he was getting a $1000 credit per kid on his Federal taxes. I didn't get shit, nor use near as many resources, but I'd be paying the sane taxes.

 

Ridiculous.

 

To an extent you are paying to prevent the production of total savages that steal your shit. That's the polticians job after all.