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2013-09-24 Government

Property tax burden up 13 pct under Christie

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Posted by Fred 2013-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 So-called 'property taxes' are simply proof we now actually own nothing, but rather lease our homes from the gov't. Private ownership of real estate has long been a myth. But of course Christie is not part of the problem, as he sends his kids to a private school.

The migration of property owners and tax-payers from Blue States is likely to continue. Illinois is sinking rapidly under the public employee retirement pension debt load.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-24 02:14|| 2013-09-24 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 ...not counting the usual additional overhead costs of ~~mafia~~ political corruption (kickbacks, padding, piece of the action,etc).

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-09-24 08:23|| 2013-09-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually property taxes are THE single capitalist tax.

The state says this areas is excluded from the rest of the country. No-one created that land, except the state, and it should charge for it, because otherwise it's value becomes a subsidy to the land-owner.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-24 09:36|| 2013-09-24 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 So-called 'property taxes' are simply proof we now actually own nothing, but rather lease our homes from the gov't.
"Now", and in the far remote past, and for the indefinite future. Nothing new except the extent of government's extravagant spending.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-09-24 11:09|| 2013-09-24 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 California voters passed a law in 1978 called Proposition 13. It effectively limits the amount of property tax that can be levied. You should have heard the piggies squeal when it passed. These days they'd probably take it to the Supreme Court and it'd be overturned. The voters, of course, have no standing.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-24 12:11|| 2013-09-24 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh. Ann Coulter's first choice for president. He wouldn't do it, so she backed Romney.

If the Republican party has any sense at all Cristie's political career will start and end in New Jersey.

Posted by Jaising Creque9323 2013-09-24 13:25|| 2013-09-24 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 He showed his colors in a new conference a couple of years ago when he screamed and belittled a woman for asking about the school he sent his kids to. I intentionally remembered the incident as a tab on the kak file of life. No use for the fellow, none at all.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-24 13:30|| 2013-09-24 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds more and more like a progressive to me.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-09-24 16:56|| 2013-09-24 16:56|| Front Page Top

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