property taxes

Dear Homeowner: If You're Paying $260,000 in Property Taxes Over 20 Years, What Exactly Do You "Own"? If we understand property taxes as a "lease from the local government for the right to gamble on another housing bubble arising," we see "ownership" in a different light. We're constantly...

by WARNER TODD HUSTON22 Mar 2016 Detroit’s Democrat mayor, Mike Duggan, announced that all Detroit students who graduate from a city high school will receive two free years of college tuition at a community college, eventually to be paid for out of the city’s property taxes. Following a state...

Politicians hike property taxes to pay for police abuse lawsuit. http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-police-state-and-property-taxes-what-you-can-do-about-it

Property tax ‘to have an adverse effect on market’ According to Offshore News: http://www.offshorenewsflash.com/2015/01/25/property-tax-adverse-effect-market/ The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry strongly disagrees with the new property tax announced by the government in...

Are there any homesteader or off the grid people who frequent this forum. How do you guys deal with property taxes? Do you have a job or do little things around town to make some cash to at least pay your property taxes? Do you have investments that generate income? Do you guys think there...

It was narrowly defeated last time, so I wrote this letter to submit to the local paper. Any suggestions for improving it?

At first glance, he's right though. Civility is a two way street. If someone attempts to deprive you of your private property under the threat of violence, you are in the right to shoot them. Personal defense isn't only relegated to spontaneous burglary acts. Obviously, I don't have all the...

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Property Rights and Property Taxes—and Countries That Don’t Have Them "Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay? I would say that you don’t. You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an...

Of course it is for my convenience. Of course it is. Well, in my yearly slog through the the property tax and plate renewal process it seems the N.C. government has not only eaten up more of my time on the phone, correcting and re-correcting mistakes, but has decided to advance charge my...

Let it all burn! I hope more people start to realize what they are dealing with. http://nypost.com/2014/02/27/city-state-tax-laws-force-minority-tenants-to-pay-more-suit/

Would it be possible to attack the problem, on a local level, through a ballot initiative? My idea is to put forward a proposal to divorce property taxes from property so that an economic crisis wouldn't result in a large scale government land grab. What if, as a first step, "property" taxes...

Have you ever tried this type of activism? Do you know anyone that has tried this type of activism? I don't own a duplex in a high property tax city, or a home at all. Sure, I live in a home but my rent is about the same as the average home owner's property taxes. Anyway, did it work out for...

http://www.my9nj.com/Story/23501639/ap-property-tax-burden-up-13-pct-under-christie

Robert Fernandes of Forks Township showed up at the local clerk’s office to pay his property tax in $1 bills. He owed $7,143 just for the school portion of his home’s property tax debt. He brought doughnuts as a peace offering in case any township employees were inconvenienced by his unusual...

Americans losing homes for unpaid property taxes as little as $44 Michael Sallah, Debbie Cenziper, and Steven Rich Washington Post September 8, 2013 On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding...

Evil. Had I known, I would have paid it for him. H/t Raimondo and Grigg: Washington, DC, epicenter of World Evil People who do things like this are why I maintain a "Bane List" http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/?tid=HP_lede Lots more at the...

From Faux-Newz Pennsylvania man pays school property tax — all $7,143 of it — in $1 bills http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/06/pennsylvania-man-pays-school-property-tax-all-7143-it-in-1-bills/?test=latestnews One, two ... 6,999, 7,000 ... An Easton, Pa. man, frustrated over property...

Property taxes are unAmerican and backward. I think sales taxes are more legitimate. http://www.my9nj.com/story/23288092/new-jersey-property-tax-problems

Governments gain their legitimacy from the consent of the governed, and, when such institutions no longer provide any appreciable benefits to citizens, even mainstream folks with no political ideology will become tax resisters. Also, proponents of big government should take note that spending...