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  • Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."

    Running   Country   Real  
  • It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

    Source: www.researchgate.net
  • It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.

    Jobs   Fall   Home  
  • Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

    Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue (dissenting opinion) (1927)
  • The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.

    "DA Brown, Council Candidates Get Dem Nod" by John Toscano, www.qgazette.com. May 21, 2003.
  • Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

    Source: www.columbusunderground.com
  • If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.

    Beach   Cutting   Mexican  
    "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.
  • The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

  • How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

    Home   Elderly   Years  
    "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.
  • We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

    Home   Class   Why Not  
    "The Rise of the Non-Working Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.
  • Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  • We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  • In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.

    Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.
  • There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

    "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.
  • Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

    "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.
  • I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

    Texas   Numbers   Tolls  
  • Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  • As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

    Assessment   Hands   Land  
    Letter to his sister Margaret, 1842. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, pp. 72-73, 1913.
  • If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.

    House   Church   Would Be  
  • The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

  • You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

    Real   Thinking   Years  
  • I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

    Funny   Money   Humor  
    Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951
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