Do you seriously think that a bunch of Democrats who voted against no tax on tips over time or social security is going to Make life more affordable for you?? LOL!
Dumbest people on earth!!!!
You save up $6,500 of your own post tax income, buy lumber, and spend four weekends building a deck in your backyard.
A county assessor drives past your house, notices the new wood, and reassesses your property.
Your property tax bill goes up by $640 a year. Forever.
Did your new deck add $640 worth of wear and tear to the county roads? Did the fire department need a new engine because you have a place to put a grill? Did the police send an extra cruiser down your street?
No.
You paid for the materials. You did the labor. You made the neighborhood look better.
We really need to talk about how outrageous property taxes have become.
My house has been paid off for six years.
No mortgage. No lender. Not a dollar owed on it.
Took my wife and me nineteen years and every spare paycheck to get there.
Except the county bill this year was $9,400 in property taxes alone.
Don't pay it, and eventually someone with a badge shows up to take a house we already own free and clear.
On top of that, we paid 30% in income tax this year.
Sales tax on every single purchase.
Gas tax every time the tank gets filled.
We finished paying the bank.
We never actually stopped paying for the house.
We just started paying someone new.
TAXATION IS THEFT.
Property tax shouldn't exist on a home that's already paid in full.
Property tax makes no sense. You work your butt off to finally buy a house. It is your house and your yard, but the government steps in and says NO. We will tax you for working hard and make you pay for those who can't afford a house. Just saying.
Prices of everything from gas to produce are out of fucking control and all of our politicians are on social media bitching about daylight savings time…
We have a problem…
Average retired couple Social Security benefits: $38,500 a year.
Max Household Welfare Program Value: $80,000 a year.
Retired Americans who paid taxes their entire lives can get less than a household of illegals.
Americans are robbed and abused.
So wrong.
HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?
Did I sell it? No.
Did I receive $362,000? No.
Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.
But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.
This isn’t income.
It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.
It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.
If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.
If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.
So why does owning a home work differently?
WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?
A house isn’t just an investment.
It’s where people live.
You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.
At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.
IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.
And people are starting to notice.
Imagine believing that if you just gave Democrats more money, they could changed the temperatures across planet earth.
The absurdity of the global warming hoax is laughable.
The food pyramid we grew up with was designed by lobbyists, not scientists. A whole generation got diabetes so the grain industry could sell more bread.
The US government sent $2.7 TRILLION in Medicare & Medicaid money overseas to people who were NOT eligible to receive it.
That’s 8% of our national debt.
Medicare isn't going broke. The money is being stolen.