Post by doctorwho on Sept 5, 2012 21:18:44 GMT -6
You know me better than that. Real estate taxes for most are set up to be paid with one's mortgage. It is only cheep skates like me that "cut the check" twice a year.
I remember the days when public education was +/- 50% of the total tax bill... not the almost 80% it has become today. The simple fact is there is complete voter apathy as the masses have been conditioned to "a monthly billing cycle", with no idea the huge chuck that education now represents on a yearly or decade basis.
No.... Doc a 2% raise does not bother me much at all when compared to the "real train wreck" of defined pension plans and our states new idea of dumping those pension plans right in the lap of the taxpayer.
Of course in my case it makes little difference as the pastures are starting to look a bit greener in other more financial prudent states.
I too hopefully will be out of here before that happens- and that is not IF it happens, it's when. King Madigan is going to screw the burbs and his court jester Quinn will be waving the baton for that circus train.
so every increase only adding to that future pain, and it will be brutal. God help those who haven't sold their house before that is announced-- imagine trying to sell your home if the taxes were doubled ? People moving from other states already avoiding areas /like ours ( states like ours) -for that reason.