SHOULD we end property tax and collect money from another source.?

Question

renters pay taxes too so think if you rnt you pay to its in your rent .

Answer 1

Taxes should be collected on incomes, inheritances, alcohol, tobacco and firearms, and the lottery.
There should be steep increase in income taxes for the richest two percent of Americans.

Answer 2

I agree but this question is pointless because property taxes will be here as long as property exists.

I say we should tax the absurdly rich a little heavier..but it's the absurdly rich who run for office or whose friends run for office..would you tax your friends? I didnt think so. Bush wont either. So..while the rich find new and improved ways to not pay taxes..and the poor find new ways to stay eating without working the middle class get squeezed by both sides..squeezed until you here a popping sound..POP..that is the sound of middle class person being ushered into the lower poorer class. Yea..taxes suck..I hate payin em. But whatcha gonna do..life is a Bezod and then you dizzie.

Answer 3

Property tax pays for most of your local government services. If you end property tax, you need to devise another way to pay for police protection, fire protection, sewer, water, and schools.

Do you want to rely on the state or federal government to fund these services through income taxes or sales taxes? If you do, then you let the state and federal government decide how many policemen are enough to protect you, whether a volunteer fire department is adequate to protect you, and whether you want George Bush and Hillary Clinton to decide the best education for your children.

There needs to be other broad based taxes to off-set the property tax. There needs to be leadership in deciding how to fund our local services.

Get rid of property taxes and you lose all control.

Make the state and federal government fund their mandated programs, especially special education programs and school building programs. Oh yeah, while you're at the gas pump, think about a tax on the oil companies that are reaping billions of dollars of profit quarterly.

Answer 4

A better question: How much money would be collected if the 47% who currently pay ZERO income tax were taxed at 5% or `10%?

Answer 5

Taxes are like extortion No mater who is in charge of the neighborhood they want some money.

But look at the good side Instead of worrying about taxes look at it as a huge pile of money that you can get.

If you join the Redpublican party they will help you get government contracts. So you pay taxes and you get paid by taxes. It is like the tide are you worried about the tide?

Go big Red Go

Answer 6

Property tax should be done away with - it is double taxation. You already paid taxes on your original purchase, and now you have to keep paying taxes? This is unfair. Income tax should still exist, becase if we just raise sales tax, this is a form of regressive taxation, and it hurts the poor the most. However, there is no reason I should have to keep paying taxes on something after I have paid for it, and paid taxes on it once.

Answer 7

You can never be the rightful owner of anything because it is continuously taxed. Taxes are killing our economy, yet senators still get outrageous pensions, and are not obligated by the same Social Security program as every other U.S. citizen. Perhaps it's coming down to another revolution!

Answer 8

I like the idea of getting rid of ALL tax, and just taxing goods and services. The more you buy, the more taxes you pay.

Answer 9

Property tax, income tax should be done away with and replaced with a consumption tax

Answer 10

I got no problem paying taxes, it is an investment in our government and our country, what a patriotic thing to do.