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Just a burner so I can speak my mind openly. Gotta go, I have a tee time.

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@awaretweeter @Watchman_motto I never understood dudes that cared about what other dudes do on a golf course. You play any way you like. Same for everyone else.

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@ThatEricAlper @Shinedown

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@DHARMERICA 2/2 Not inherit to property tax as a system.
Consumption taxes will always impact the less fortunate more unless we only tax things that only the wealthy buy.
NC has a proposal to make apartments exempt if they are 1% owned by NPO. That’s another example of shifting the burden.

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@DHARMERICA Good morning.
I don’t think property tax does disproportionately impact homeowners. I think consumption taxes are far too regressive. The ultra wealthy have the means, motivation, and influence to lessen their relative ad valorem taxes but that’s a systemic failure 1/2

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@DHARMERICA I too have lived experience with this.
Want to give people a homestead exemption? That’s fine but the tax burden just gets pushed elsewhere. Unless we want to cut services (I don’t), someone has to pay the bill. Who would pay for teachers, police, fire departments?

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@DHARMERICA @Jeanne2999432 @BrianEchNC equitable value. A way of fairly distributing the tax burden. If community members don’t want to be taxed out of their homes, they should take that up with their elected officials, not the assessments. Putting off a 7 year reval makes the inequity far worse.

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@DHARMERICA @Jeanne2999432 @BrianEchNC Everything you said is thoughtful and true. It’s doesn’t change the cold facts of the market. Values going up 300% doesn’t price anyone out if the tax rate is adjusted according. At the end of the day, it’s not even about finding market value, it’s about finding an equitable valu

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@ThrillaRilla369 yup.. Opened a franchise QSR and 90 straight days, many 10+ hours. Some were 15 hours for about a week straight.

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@Jeanne2999432 @DHARMERICA @BrianEchNC There is not some boogyman pricing you out, it’s a market. Buyers and sellers that determine the market, assessments are simply supposed to reflect the market as of a given date.

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@JoCoGuardian Penalized rural land ownership? Half of the large rural land in NC is taxed at a fraction of the value. Essentially Large landholders protection act.
Pender waited 7 years to do a reval, of course the values doubled. Doesn’t mean the tax bill needs to go up.

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@DHARMERICA @BrianEchNC @Jeanne2999432 An overwhelming show shouldn’t matter if it’s coming from a place of ignorance. Values have easily doubled there in the past 7 years, regardless of how people feel about it. It’s just math.

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@StarNewsOnline Ignorance of the law and reality shouldn’t be rewarded. They waited 7 years to do a reval, of course values doubled.

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@Mr_Husky1 We had friends over swimming years ago. Their 5 year old daughter was there. Someone said something surprising and the reply was: “Shut the front door!” to which she replied, “It is shut, daddy”. But now STFU is shut the front door for 10 years.

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@bofrench So buy an ice maker.

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@dkipp1353 @data_republican I’m well educated, which is why I know the praying part doesn’t belong. You should try it sometime

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@data_republican @dkipp1353 “Praying and educating” should never be used together.

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@bshawesome Even if that did happen, that’s a minor inconvenience at worst.

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@bshawesome @CarsonHocevar @MattWeaverRA Unless Hocevar did something nefarious, or had knowledge of it, why would he care? Easy enough to say “I don’t know” 20-30 times when it’s the truth.

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@ihieanacho7824 @lily_10asl Gotta be rage bait.

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@BellaBaddie__ Def Leppard.
maybe Shinedown, Matchbox 20