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Moves to Austin and votes for every single tax increase ever and now complains she can't afford her taxes and will have to move. Bad thing is the dumbass will move somewhere else and do it all over again.
http://www.lovenorthaustin.com/new-page/surge-in-property-tax-bills-spu…
“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year.
“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
http://www.lovenorthaustin.com/new-page/surge-in-property-tax-bills-spu…
“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year.
“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
That is so funny, it could be an SNL skit...maybe Jon Stewart should do a bit on this one....It is just dripping with satire...
That is what happens when a Lib finds out that they are the ones paying for all their tax hikes..."I'm taking my ball and going home...I'm not paying for all this stuff that I voted for". haha
The funny thing is the people that own the most land (farmers, ranchers etc.) pay very little in property taxes so maybe she should move to the country and raise some goats?
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I have the same feeling about Mexican immigrants...they hate mexico, so they come to America...and then rather than acclimate and do things the way Americans do things...they insist on doing things the way they did them in Mexico and are block by block turning communities into everything they hated about Mexico.
It's not right to tax people off their land simply because they made a wise choice during their earning years and get denied the ability to retire in their homes because they can't afford the taxes on it.
Oil and gas "make up the rest?" Seems like putting the burden on the wrong people, no?
“The property tax system is a tried and tested workhorse that has consistently provided a reliable revenue stream for local government to provide the services taxpayers expect,” Amezquita said. “It has been overburdened by the Texas Legislature’s desire to give away ever greater tax breaks to big business and commercial interests by having them pay an ever-decreasing portion of their property taxes.”
Have you even read the article that you linked?
Here locally in Beaumont, our local school district is the laughing stock of the country at the moment. They got almost 600 million passed in bond issues and stole, pissed away and embezzled millions upon millions of it on fraudulent contractors without bids, relatives with fake businesses set up, kick backs, and straight up depositing hundreds of thousands at a time to personal accounts. Our little district had the highest paid superintendent in the state. Friends and relatives of board members were getting hired to all kinds of duplicate positions. Now that all that "free" money is gone, there are 300 people with their jobs on the chopping block, mostly teachers, the ones furthest removed from the picture. Big picture? Yeah, there is a big picture, but also a whole lot of little thieves in the mix.
Hell, our last mayor and several members of city council ended up going to prison for the same scenarios with city monies. The city used to have a revolving low interest loan program for small businesses. Come to find out, I was one of very few who ever paid any back, let alone the fact that I was never late with a payment and actually paid ahead.
Businesses refuse to relocate and expand here due to the fact that the school district has become an epic failure. People are moving out of town and the tax base is dwindling.
As for you pointing out that oil and gas make up the rest? You realize that there is somewhere in the 40 plus cents per gallon tax on each and every gallon of gas you purchase. If the refinery pays that in advance, they'll just tack it to the price at the pump and the gubmint will still be grabbing their 40 cents on top of it as well. Big government at its best.
My wife looked into this pretty close in our area. . They want to raise the assessments a higher % on more expensive properties than the cheaper ones. Makes no sense.
A good friend of mine is very conservative, he has three kids. He was all for our $450m school bond issue. I voted against it.
Most people support what is in their best interest.
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