47 Percent of Detroit Homeowners Have Quit Paying Property Taxes

[amy31416]

No, 30k. It was a foreclosure in an upscale neighborhood. Think - auto executives with kids in private schools. It was eventually torn down. It needed a lot of work.

Cookies for everybody who said it was not a typo. But that's what I mean when I say that moving to Detroit to make it some Libertarian hub doesn't make sense. The taxes are too damned high! (ht Jimmy MacMillan)

There really sould be an upper limit on property taxes. The people living in million dollar mansions don't use 20x's the city resources that people living in smaller homes do.

They probably use fewer resources considering their kids are more likely to go to private schools.

 

[Henry Rogue]

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 and taxation can reach such high levels that services collapse and tax revenues plunge. Detroit’s government has officially gotten so big and its services so ineffective that anarchy is breaking out in response.

More info:

http://silverunderground.com/2013/0...t-homeowners-have-quit-paying-property-taxes/

How ironic, when a government consumes it's society, it collapses from it's own weight and leaves society with nothing. Totalitarianism begets anarchy in the end.

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

How ironic, when a government consumes it's society, it collapses from it's own weight and leaves society with nothing. Totalitarianism begets anarchy in the end.

ying/yang
action/reaction

 

[BarryDonegan]

Detroit will have to start assessing those $1 properties at $1 or else they will never sell. It will be a ghost town until they do.

 

[CPUd]

Uh....methinks you have called that one wrong, AF:


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/2...tting-on-detroit-comeback-buy-up-real-estate/

http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-newest-real-estate-investment-craze-detroits-housing-crisis-1360973

LOL they are gonna get screwed.

What they don't say about the vacants is that anything left sitting after a couple days will be stripped clean- fixtures, wiring, pipes, etc.

 

[qh4dotcom]

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. [/url]

I doubt Detroit's tax resisters will become federal tax resisters.

 

[BarryDonegan]

I doubt Detroit's tax resisters will become federal tax resisters.

That's a different government, so their individual non ideological calculus will differ on governments at different levels, IMO. In the case of Detroit, lack of enforcement capability is implied in the government's failure. haha

 

[oyarde]

I doubt Detroit's tax resisters will become federal tax resisters.

Well , they have in a way, no job, no Fed payroll tax ...

 

[bunklocoempire]

Well , they have in a way, no job, no Fed payroll tax ...

It is very gratifying to pay no Fed payroll tax. And doing so legally within the confines of the their game is a hoot -nay, it is duty.

May we all be blessed to do such a thing while still carrying on with our responsibilities.