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Bullshit. Infrastructure and transportation have generally always been paid by the owners. There may be cases where residents have successfully lobbied their co
by choeger 7y ago
Bullshit. Infrastructure and transportation have generally always been paid by the owners. There may be cases where residents have successfully lobbied their community to build something for them, but that's not how things work where I live.
But even if there was such a support for honeowners, a property tax would be nothing else but theft. Charge the real cost of you want but then leave the people in peace.
- baq 7y agoPlease. Tax is not theft by definition.
- yardie 7y ago> Charge the real cost of you want but then leave the people in peace. And thats the problem. Infrastructure has not been priced correctly. A lot of towns are still paying the bond on initial construction. Leaving very little for maintenance and replacement. And then when the road/sewer/water system needs to be replaced voters don’t have the appetite to pay for it. You see this in older towns in the northeast. Water and sewer mains are corroding. taxes go up to cover it. And the residents flee for newer, cheaper developments. The town eventually becomes insolvent.
- perl4ever 7y agoA distinction I think should be made is that the value of land before you build on it is entirely due to the community and natural characteristics. So why not tax only on that value and not the value of any structure or improvements? The wisest thing I every heard from a libertarian or conservative was "if you tax something you get less of it". It therefore follows, not that we should eliminate taxes, but that we should tax something which is immune to the effect and only that.