Every state in America needs to abolish property taxes.

If Billionaires and corporations paid their fair share in taxes, we could maybe do this.

How much do you pay in federal taxes? What is your income and how much do you contribute? Just trying to determine if you pay your “fair” share.

Old people just want to ruin everything for the younger people. Old people got their houses cheap, now they're worth more and they pay more property taxes. They don't work anymore, so they won't have to suffer the consequences of higher income taxes. If you don't pay property taxes, all the money has to come from somewhere else. Only other options are income tax or sales tax. Old people would say take it from sales tax since they aren't working anymore. Property tax is proportional to your property value, if you can't or don't want to pay property tax, sell your house and rent somewhere or buy a cheaper property.

Colt Peacemaker won the West.

Who determines what is "fair".

Why can't I demand that you pay your fair share?

Just a moment.

All of that "financial manipulation" is completely legal.

So how is it not fair?

How come you money grabbers never define "fair share"?

What is a fair share? The top 1% makes 21% of income and pays 42% of taxes. Is that “fair”?

Your principle holds for the top 1%, but not for the top 0.1%. That is people who make a couple of million dollars per year pay a lot of taxes, but those on the next level, the ultrarich, have access to offshore accounts, corporate tax dodges, and other tricks that greatly lower their tax burdens. Donald Trump pays almost nothing, for example. because he finds a way to report negative net income most years.

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Trump’s tax returns released by House committee show he paid little in taxes

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The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump's personal and business returns, ending years of legal wrangling and speculation.

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The people who own private jets most certainly do not pay their fair share.

Exactly.

These people ignore that the actual value and very viability of their home is the result of public investment: in nearby schools, municipal water/sewage systems, roads, etc. (Not to mention the clearance of forests and other terrain for neighborhoods in the first place.)

Without all of these things homeowners like me would have homesteads in the middle of empty land, which would be of little value and have no investment upside.

Thank your city government for the value of your home, and pay your taxes.

Property taxes account for about 15% of the revenue the states and localities bring in.

Anyone who thinks these states can't cut spending by 15% is "stupid".

"Fair" always just means someone else's money. Even when they become billionaire's like Jeff Bezos these leftists think everyone but them should be paying taxes.

Uh, do you not know how Las Vegas was developed?

Private finance.

Railroad bought land, built houses, and sold them.

This happened wherever the railroad went, but I highlighted Vegas for the name recognition.

my city spends 30k per student and has something like a 20% HS graduation rate. Some of the worst ratios of cost:result for a classroom in the country. Yet they keep throwing money at the problem....doesn't matter.

Property taxes are most morally justifiable. The government exists to protect and enable to you use your property to generate wealth.

Income, corporate, and sales taxes are terrible for growth since they scale directly with productivity.

Land is the ultimate finite resource, we should price it accordingly.

To put this school administration talk in perspective, my town spent $5 million last year on school administration (counting all levels -- elementary, middle school, and high school) against roughly $125 million in property-tax revenues. You could make all school administrators work for free and it wouldn't meaningfully change property-tax bills.

The rich lose money many years. Thus is why tariffs and sales tax makes sense in order tax the rich and the criminals and illegals who aren't filing tax returns.

And back then, you had muckrakers and yellow press screaming "Railroads aren't paying their fair share!"

Or, "They are monopolies! Vertically integrated! We need common sense antitrust reform NOW!"

Income, property, corporate, capital gains, and sales taxes are all a form of theft.

Quit being a mouthpiece for politicians and the public sector bureaucracy.

Pay for your own services voluntarily, and quit suggesting that others should be robbed to pay for what you want.

Stockholm Syndrome nonsense.

Florida doesn’t have state property taxes. Some of the locals do, but the state does not.