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There are municipalities in the USA that do not extort property taxes -- I've heard of one in Colorado, one in Arizona, a few in Texas, and some in Alaska. Sin

by mkempe 8y ago

There are municipalities in the USA that do not extort property taxes -- I've heard of one in Colorado, one in Arizona, a few in Texas, and some in Alaska. Since a common justification is to finance public schools, I suppose that complete privatization of education would be a necessary step in order to vastly reduce or generally abolish property taxes.

samstave 8y ago
Ostensibly they tax you for “services” Property tax Gas tax Sales tax --- Schools suck Roads suck Law enforcement sucks Pollution sucks --- But shiny new government buildings All cops have new cars Gas prices are out of control The recycling fund was looted Social security was looted Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said. Corporations pay no taxes Flint has no water This country is a joke. Wait until big agra (monsanto) and inefficient governments take over legal marijuana. Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective. Look at the lotto - that was supposed to pay for schools. Look at “paid cable television” - that was supposed to eliminate commercials for a paid service. Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN? Its all a joke. EDIT: And the thing that pisses me off, is they want to push all the costs down to the consumers. Are ANY of the water bottle companies held accountable for the mass plastic pollution in every thread of our environment? Obviously plastic isnt going anywhere - but the oil companies and chemical companies that produce all these materials and products pay nothing. Look at this douchebag in the EPA right now. Are you following any of his antics? He had his lackeys being pay $40,000 PER MONTH just by Morrocco alone for lobbying access. He had his "security" guy spending $100,000 on first class flights. He stole $65,000 from his campaign fund saying that he was reimbursing himself. And then you have morons apologizing for them and defending these clowns.
- RightMillennial 8y ago
  I take issue with some of these points. > Property tax > Schools suck > Roads suck I have no argument there. > Sales tax Have these been rising recently? > Gas tax > Gas peices [prices] are out of control Gas prices and whatever embedded taxes they have aren't that bad. They're much better than their peak around 2008 at over $4/gal. > The recycling fund was looted I'm not familiar with this. > Social security was looted Do you have a citation for that? > Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said. President Trump says a lot of things. Is there proof this actually happened? > Corporations pay no taxes You can argue whether they pay enough taxes, but I'd like a citation that they pay no taxes. > Flint has no water That's the city's own damn fault due to corruption. > Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective. Personally, I'd rather we tax it heavily like cigarettes than to waste money incarcerating those drug users. > Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN? They could use some more breaks.
  - scrumption 8y ago
    "In its annual report filed to the SEC in February 2018, Amazon estimated that not only would the company not be paying anything in 2017 federal income taxes, but it would be getting a $137 million tax refund." http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.aspx?c=97664&fid=15414896 http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.asp...
    - icebraining 8y ago
      A $137M federal tax refund. And a $211M state tax bill, plus a $724M bill in international taxes. Also, that refund is something that happened only in 2017; they paid over $1B in federal taxes in 2016, for example.
  - ams6110 8y ago
    My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nearly a tenth of everything I spend goes to taxes, and that's on top of federal income tax, social security tax, federal unemployment tax, state unemployment tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, fuel tax, excise tax, cable and internet tax, phone tax, restaurant tax, and probably a dozen others. Other localities in other states are worse than that.

by mkempe 8y ago

samstave 8y ago

Ostensibly they tax you for “services” Property tax Gas tax Sales tax --- Schools suck Roads suck Law enforcement sucks Pollution sucks --- But shiny new government buildings All cops have new cars Gas prices are out of control The recycling fund was looted Social security was looted Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said. Corporations pay no taxes Flint has no water This country is a joke. Wait until big agra (monsanto) and inefficient governments take over legal marijuana. Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective. Look at the lotto - that was supposed to pay for schools. Look at “paid cable television” - that was supposed to eliminate commercials for a paid service. Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN? Its all a joke. EDIT: And the thing that pisses me off, is they want to push all the costs down to the consumers. Are ANY of the water bottle companies held accountable for the mass plastic pollution in every thread of our environment? Obviously plastic isnt going anywhere - but the oil companies and chemical companies that produce all these materials and products pay nothing. Look at this douchebag in the EPA right now. Are you following any of his antics? He had his lackeys being pay $40,000 PER MONTH just by Morrocco alone for lobbying access. He had his "security" guy spending $100,000 on first class flights. He stole $65,000 from his campaign fund saying that he was reimbursing himself. And then you have morons apologizing for them and defending these clowns.

RightMillennial 8y ago
I take issue with some of these points. > Property tax > Schools suck > Roads suck I have no argument there. > Sales tax Have these been rising recently? > Gas tax > Gas peices [prices] are out of control Gas prices and whatever embedded taxes they have aren't that bad. They're much better than their peak around 2008 at over $4/gal. > The recycling fund was looted I'm not familiar with this. > Social security was looted Do you have a citation for that? > Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said. President Trump says a lot of things. Is there proof this actually happened? > Corporations pay no taxes You can argue whether they pay enough taxes, but I'd like a citation that they pay no taxes. > Flint has no water That's the city's own damn fault due to corruption. > Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective. Personally, I'd rather we tax it heavily like cigarettes than to waste money incarcerating those drug users. > Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN? They could use some more breaks.
- scrumption 8y ago
  "In its annual report filed to the SEC in February 2018, Amazon estimated that not only would the company not be paying anything in 2017 federal income taxes, but it would be getting a $137 million tax refund." http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.aspx?c=97664&fid=15414896 http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.asp...
  - icebraining 8y ago
    A $137M federal tax refund. And a $211M state tax bill, plus a $724M bill in international taxes. Also, that refund is something that happened only in 2017; they paid over $1B in federal taxes in 2016, for example.
- ams6110 8y ago
  My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nearly a tenth of everything I spend goes to taxes, and that's on top of federal income tax, social security tax, federal unemployment tax, state unemployment tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, fuel tax, excise tax, cable and internet tax, phone tax, restaurant tax, and probably a dozen others. Other localities in other states are worse than that.