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On Nextdoor here (Puget Sound area but on the other side of the water from Seattle) there are a lot of people who (1) post a lot about how property taxes and ga
by tzs 8mo ago
On Nextdoor here (Puget Sound area but on the other side of the water from Seattle) there are a lot of people who (1) post a lot about how property taxes and gasoline taxes are too high, (2) complain about any cuts to government services, and (3) oppose any effort to tax income even if the threshold is way way way higher than anything they or anyone they know will ever come near on the grounds that at some future time the threshold could be removed.
- mothballed 8mo ago> (3) oppose any effort to tax income even if the threshold is way way way higher than anything they or anyone they know will ever come near on the grounds that at some future time the threshold could be removed. This is exactly what happened with the national income tax, which initially only applied to <1% of the population. Of course the snare was set, and after WWI broke out the snare then sprung. It took less than a decade to go from <1% to >33% of households.
- cush 8mo agoproperty taxes are indeed way too high