Hillary

[Von]

As a western New Yorker I want to thank all of you for your sympathy. I just hope that all the downstate nuts come to their senses and see what Hillary is really like. I'm sure that once in office she will find a way to raise our taxes to an even higher level! While I have your ear, let me ask what your total property taxes are for what assesed value. I would like to see how the values in other parts of the U.S. Here I pay over $6K with an assessment of just under 200K for my house. At my antique shop its $7K with a $215K assessment. Let me know what you are paying so we can let Hillary know that we are paying way too much already!

Von

 

[Bird]

Von, being a poor boy in a poor neighborhood, with an agricultural appraisal on the land, my place is only appraised at $56,790 and my county taxes this year are $392.35 and school taxes of $585.06.

Bird

 

[glennmac]

And, Von, Bird doesn't have any state income taxes, unlike your, what, 10%? Bird, I guess you thank Ann Richards every day for your low taxes.

Glenn

 

[Thomas]

Please..Please keep her out of New Hampshire,for New Hampshire has enough problems with taxes plus. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[DVerbarg]

Von,

I live in a county in Illinois that prides itself on its protection of agricultural land. We have 5 acres and paid $2800 on an assessed value of $82k.

DaveV

 

[bpence]

Regarding property taxes, we have kind of a convoluted (that's a Philadelphia lawyer word for screwed up) property tax system here in Michigan. Property taxes are based on an "assessed valuation", which is supposed to represent 50% of your place's fair market value if sold. It seems that assessed valuations are going up rapidly in a lot of areas because the assessors (nice guys I'm told) are just adjusting all of us to higher market values. There are some basic tax rates, and then we all get to vote on things like school millages, public services (police, fire, etc), support for colleges and universities to see how much more tax we're willing to pay. By the way, taxes vary a LOT by county.

All that being said, I live in Lapeer County which borders to the North of Oakland County, which happens to be one of the richest counties in the nation, ranking up there with Marin County in CA. Lapeer County is still pretty rural with a lot of agriculture still utilizing a lot of the land. My assessed valuation is around $80,000. My taxes on 10 acres, bordered on two sides by State owned land, a house, pole barn, and Kubota tractor total about $1,600 +/- per year. Now, understand that we don't have many county provided services. The Road Commission grades our dirt road once or twice a year, whether it needs it or not. A neighbor two miles South with a similar property and house, who happens to live in Oakland County, pays more than $6,000 per year in property taxes. And, the closer you move toward Detroit (about 40 miles South), the higher the property taxes become. So I drive 52 miles to work every day, but really enjoy where I end up at the end of the day.


Bob Pence

 

[EddieW]

Our property tax runs about 1% of appraised value. On a $200K home it would cost about $2000. We do have a state sales tax of 4.5% and usually another 2.5-3% local tax. Hillary is an interesting person. I have never decided if she is truly an enabler or willing to accept anything to have power. Either way, I don't view her as saintly and probably even devious. I have always gone with the philosophy you are judged by the company you keep and she hangs out with a pretty sorry individual. I think she chose New York because it looked like she could win, it had nothing to do with her love of New York. Bird, before you give Arkansas too much credit, just remember they elected Bubba 6 times.

 

[Bird]

Yeah, EddieW, I know they elected Slick Willie a few times and may have learned slow, but I think Hillary and I both figure they're bound to have learned by now./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[glennmac]

I might add that I have no intention of posting any other "political" topics. I thought the presidential election was fair game because, well, it is the final month of a presidential election. When I saw the interest the topic generated, I thought members may want to comment on the other "big name" who is running. Aside from that, I personally have little interest in discussing politicians and essentially no interest in discussing political topics anywhere, much less here. However, I don't object to anyone else posting political topics or any other topics.

The bad news is that I have some other weird ideas.

Glenn

 

[ERNIEB]

Bird, at least We don't have to worry about her moving to Texas. I think. I hope? To me, the woman is very transparent. She is a politican, and has been since the couples days in Arkansas. The most political FLOTUS to have ever moved into the White House. She was one of the ring leaders of every one of her husbands campaigns. She does not seem to be one of those that people take the middle ground on, either You love Her or You hate Her. I will also say this. Win or lose, after her NY race is over, I think Her and Bill will split the blanket. Since I think they have more of a political deal than a marriage. But then the deal may extend past the Senate seat in NY.
ErnieB