It’s a wealth tax on wealth that’s very difficult to hide.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
i mean, this is less of a property tax issue and more of a social security thing.
Though i am pretty fundamentally against property tax, it’s a physical thing that i can own, i don’t see why i should pay taxes on it. If you want to tax me just hit me with income tax.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Property has infrastructure like water, roads, electrical, sewers, etc running to it that needs to be maintained. It also has things like fire fighting police surveyors etc that need to be paid in order to maintain society. Everyone could work in a city therefore the city/county/state would collect the income tax but the local town you live in doesn’t get any of that money.
thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Roads that are too big, house that are too spread out.
Police because stores refuse to hire their own security and offload it to onto your property tax.
Sewers because dumb people are too stupid to compost properly, and now we need chemicals on farm fields since the traditional method of composting is dead.
Garbage trucks and landfills because companies sell you wrappers and containers that outlive the products and are made from toxic waste.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
People need to stop thinking about property like it’s any other regular thing like a vehicle.
Land is not a thing it is a limited resource.
If someone owns a piece of land in a city it doesn’t matter what they are currently doing with it, even if they do nothing with it, that’s wasting potential that someone else could be doing with it and affects everyone around that piece of land.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Cause you don’t own it. You are borrowing it from the government.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the wealthy dodge this by a bunch of schemes that don’t count as ‘income’.
I hate paying property tax, but reckon it’s the only way to get money out of the fortunate ones that are lucky enough to own a chunk.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s pretty easy to dodge property taxes also.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why don’t you share how?
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ask your city clerk about it. That person can tell you what the city/county/township meeting format is and how to participate. But basically, you go to the meeting, bring some photos to support your claim, and discuss the matter like a civil human being. It’s not rocket surgery. You don’t need a lawyer either.