To be fair, its not as bad as all that. In addition to the 1-1.5% taxes, fixed at the time of purchase, there are numerous bond measurement repayments added onto my property taxes. So I get to vote on projects and then directly pay for them in addition to my regular property tax. This last year that ended up being about 25% extra, but the funds went to places I approve of.
Sales taxes being good or bad is a different discussion then them being new. And I know of no states that are 12 trillion dollars in debt. Sales taxes are state taxes, not federal. And the distinction does mater. In many/most states people get to actually vote on what money gets spent on, and as far as Congress goes, dems dont seem to vote for their party much.
Why do you call state sales taxes "new"? They've been around a long time. Its only that recently people have started not paying them.
And its not hyperbol that states are going bankrupt. Its simply the way things are currently. States are going deeper and deeper into dept that they have no means to repay.
As a home owner I'm all in favor of it (grin). But thats more or less my point. People want the government to do stuff, but we dont want to pay. I think its section 13C of the state constitution that's the problem (could be misremembering). It totally separates public projects form their funding do we have to vote twice, once on the project and one on if we want to pay for it.
Its also far more complex then "cut taxes and everything will be fixed". Hyperbol works both ways.
Bad teachers should be fired, which is currently hard to do. But good teachers should be paid accordingly. And a measurement of "good" is not any standardized test that I've seen.
More money is not the answer, a total overhaul of the system is needed. However simply letting the system go bankrupt because we dont want to pay sales taxes on stuff we buy online is silly.
Indeed. The interesting thing is that my property taxes and what I pay in interest on my mortgage are themselves tax deductible. I get more back in my tax returns then I pay out on my property taxes.
Doesn't seem like it. The illegals here by and large pay their state taxes (payroll and sales) and our social programs are very good overall with little wastage. Hell, I was on food stamps etc growing up and I have long since put more money into the system as a result then I ever took out (six figure earner and just purchased my house last year, would be dead in a ditch without welfare etc).
Property taxes pay for a lot, but not all. In many places the amount of property tax is fixed at the time of purchase and never increases. I will be paying 1.5% of my homes purchase price even after its value has tripled (where I live housing simply doesn't devalue like it does in most places). Meanwhile the cost of infrastructure and public services will continue to go up.
But we're talking about state taxes, not federal. For example, every election cycle here in CA we tend to vote YES on things like highway improvements but NO on taxes to fund them. Thats why CA is in the mess its in, because our state constitution requires a separate vote for funding and no one wants to pay for the stuff they want the government to do.
Its the only legal way I'm aware of. Taxes are how the government raises money to pay for things. The only other option is a loan or bond, which still needs to be repaid with taxes.
And citizens want police & fire departments, better schools, better public transportation, better water supplies, better sewers, better roads, better bridges, etc. What they dont want is to have to pay for any of it.
No, the reason is money. Facebook gives them cash, they do stupid things in exchange. Facebook then hopes to get more information to sell, I mean more users.
Its only not bankrupt because we keep on giving them tax payer monies under dubious circumstances. If we stopped, they would have major issues. But we keep funding projects that never get off the ground.
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What changed is we stopped asking the question "what is it for" and just started writing checks for anything they could produce.
There is no need for a new fighter jet. So why did we buy one?
Looks like more market fragmentation. Now if I write a tablet app I need to host it through the Google, Amazon and B&N marketplaces. Though right now I think I would skip B&N as their claim of "over a thousand apps" is not that impressive. Otherwise the specs look good on the new Nook, bit better in many ways then the Kindle Fire. However I am less impressed with the interface overlay and am uninterested in the Netflix integration as I dropped them durring the "troubles". So no regrets over my Fire pre-purchase.
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Pollution in China that is the result of us exporting manufacturing there is our pollution.
If property taxes go up, its the renters who will pay for it. The owners will just shift the burden onto their tenants.
To be fair, its not as bad as all that. In addition to the 1-1.5% taxes, fixed at the time of purchase, there are numerous bond measurement repayments added onto my property taxes. So I get to vote on projects and then directly pay for them in addition to my regular property tax. This last year that ended up being about 25% extra, but the funds went to places I approve of.
Sales taxes being good or bad is a different discussion then them being new. And I know of no states that are 12 trillion dollars in debt. Sales taxes are state taxes, not federal. And the distinction does mater. In many/most states people get to actually vote on what money gets spent on, and as far as Congress goes, dems dont seem to vote for their party much.
Keep your voice down! I'm relying on my property taxes being the same when I retire in forty years as they are now.
Why do you call state sales taxes "new"? They've been around a long time. Its only that recently people have started not paying them.
And its not hyperbol that states are going bankrupt. Its simply the way things are currently. States are going deeper and deeper into dept that they have no means to repay.
Foreign wars and welfare are not paid for with state taxes, sorry.
As a home owner I'm all in favor of it (grin). But thats more or less my point. People want the government to do stuff, but we dont want to pay. I think its section 13C of the state constitution that's the problem (could be misremembering). It totally separates public projects form their funding do we have to vote twice, once on the project and one on if we want to pay for it.
Its also far more complex then "cut taxes and everything will be fixed". Hyperbol works both ways.
Bad teachers should be fired, which is currently hard to do. But good teachers should be paid accordingly. And a measurement of "good" is not any standardized test that I've seen.
More money is not the answer, a total overhaul of the system is needed. However simply letting the system go bankrupt because we dont want to pay sales taxes on stuff we buy online is silly.
Indeed. The interesting thing is that my property taxes and what I pay in interest on my mortgage are themselves tax deductible. I get more back in my tax returns then I pay out on my property taxes.
Again. Federal taxes go to farm subsidies. State taxes go to fire departments. Sales taxes are a state issue.
Doesn't seem like it. The illegals here by and large pay their state taxes (payroll and sales) and our social programs are very good overall with little wastage. Hell, I was on food stamps etc growing up and I have long since put more money into the system as a result then I ever took out (six figure earner and just purchased my house last year, would be dead in a ditch without welfare etc).
Property taxes pay for a lot, but not all. In many places the amount of property tax is fixed at the time of purchase and never increases. I will be paying 1.5% of my homes purchase price even after its value has tripled (where I live housing simply doesn't devalue like it does in most places). Meanwhile the cost of infrastructure and public services will continue to go up.
But we're talking about state taxes, not federal. For example, every election cycle here in CA we tend to vote YES on things like highway improvements but NO on taxes to fund them. Thats why CA is in the mess its in, because our state constitution requires a separate vote for funding and no one wants to pay for the stuff they want the government to do.
Not aware of state taxes used for bailouts. Again, this is a state tax issue and not federal.
Congress is paid with federal taxes, Senators are paid with state taxes. A sales tax is a state tax.
Its the only legal way I'm aware of. Taxes are how the government raises money to pay for things. The only other option is a loan or bond, which still needs to be repaid with taxes.
And citizens want police & fire departments, better schools, better public transportation, better water supplies, better sewers, better roads, better bridges, etc. What they dont want is to have to pay for any of it.
No, the reason is money. Facebook gives them cash, they do stupid things in exchange. Facebook then hopes to get more information to sell, I mean more users.
Its only not bankrupt because we keep on giving them tax payer monies under dubious circumstances. If we stopped, they would have major issues. But we keep funding projects that never get off the ground.
What changed is we stopped asking the question "what is it for" and just started writing checks for anything they could produce.
There is no need for a new fighter jet. So why did we buy one?
Looks like more market fragmentation. Now if I write a tablet app I need to host it through the Google, Amazon and B&N marketplaces. Though right now I think I would skip B&N as their claim of "over a thousand apps" is not that impressive. Otherwise the specs look good on the new Nook, bit better in many ways then the Kindle Fire. However I am less impressed with the interface overlay and am uninterested in the Netflix integration as I dropped them durring the "troubles". So no regrets over my Fire pre-purchase.
Yea, all those Kindles people are buying is just to make book burning more efficient.
and a copy of Superman 64.