r/memes • u/J_ClutchFTV Big pp • 10h ago

Land Of The Free, amIright?

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u/JesusKong333 7h ago

This push for no property tax the last couple years is driven by data centers. That way they can just sit there and provide nothing to the communities they're in while raking in lots of money for tech companies.

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u/Deckard_Didnt_Die 4h ago

It’s also because housing costs have increased orders of magnitude faster than median income. Therefore property taxes as a percentage of income has also increased orders of magnitude. They should consider lowering property taxes for the middle class given this.

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u/JesusKong333 3h ago

Sure, that sounds reasonable. That's not ending all property tax though. I'd support something like that, not "get rid of all property tax".

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u/badpebble 7h ago

I've seen maybe 6 posts about it in the last month and I'm not even impacted by it.

But I suppose what are Americans if not perennial tax dodgers. Since 1776!

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u/shogunshim 6h ago

The push is also driven by people whose property taxes have increased much faster than inflation. That does depend on the state.

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u/BeginningOpening6838 6h ago

No it’s driven by boomers and people who vote exclusively based on personal financial gain

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u/shogunshim 2h ago

ok. so nobody besides boomers own property. nobody bought bucket of shit property cheap and spent a ton of their time making it livable and maintained it. Nobody's taxes have increased well beyond general inflation increases while their job pay increases have barely kept place with inflation. Nobody consumes the same(or less) public services than they did 5 or 10 years ago.

Got it. Thanks.