Anyone Else Find Property Taxes High In TX? (San Antonio, Kerrville: sales, house)

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by cdelena

Local school taxes do not stay at home over a certain level... Primary school taxes are equalized across the state.

Yes, the robin hood law. Say you are living in Plano in a $500,000.00 home, paying HIGH dollar school taxes, the state divides it up to where a portion goes to your local school in Plano and a portion goes to say a school over in south Dallas, in a neigborhood where school taxes are LOW, yet they will benefit the same! I don't know, it's a hard call, I realize kids need chances to get an education so they can get ahead, yet, somehow, this doesn't seem quite right, still, what alternatives could maybe the state come up with. I don't know, like I said, hard call, but still doesn't seem quite fair to the taxpayers.

Along the same lines, like paying through the nose, educating all the illegal immigrants that are flooding our country. We're having trouble providing good educations to our own kids.

[jfre81]

Robin Hood does not affect all districts - and I thought they were getting rid of that. RH is a perversion of a good system that is intended to keep your tax money local, but under a state with income taxes etc. there really is no pretension of that.

In North Carolina (low property taxes, high state income taxes) they have no infrastructure and overcrowded schools because they do not have the funds to accommodate spiraling growth - and they're building cheap mass production schools that go up in five months then need to have trailers all around them because they did not build them big enough. Not to mention they'll be leaking water and other things will have to be fixed because they were built in a hasty and shoddy manner.

Robin Hood or not, you get what you pay for in more parts of Texas, though I can't exactly say that for some school districts. In those places I consider it more of a failure of those local communities to be involved and demand better.

[Roma]

Property Taxes are really high in Texas. I think we pay around 2.5% in Granbury.
California was around 1% and North Carolina is even cheaper then California.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by Roma

Property Taxes are really high in Texas. I think we pay around 2.5% in Granbury.
California was around 1% and North Carolina is even cheaper then California.

If you picked up a house in Pasadena, California and put it in Pasadena, Texas would it be worth nearly the same?

CA and NC both have very high state income taxes. NC is great if you are a single-income household and you've got to have a big house.

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by jfre81

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Robin Hood or not, you get what you pay for in more parts of Texas, though I can't exactly say that for some school districts. In those places I consider it more of a failure of those local communities to be involved and demand better.

You're probably right. I don't know enough about it to say. I do know that years ago the supervisor over the janitors at the Arlington schools told me they pulled up perfectly good carpet amd replaced it, simply so they could spend the moeny that had been alloted to them. Otherwise, they would have had to send it back to the state and it would have an effect on their next year's budget.

Such a pity. So wasteful and it is the taxpayers who are bearing the burden for these actions. Typical bureaucracy at work. C'mon folks, take on a second job so we can keep the old wheels turning!

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by lonestar2007

You're probably right. I don't know enough about it to say. I do know that years ago the supervisor over the janitors at the Arlington schools told me they pulled up perfectly good carpet amd replaced it, simply so they could spend the moeny that had been alloted to them. Otherwise, they would have had to send it back to the state and it would have an effect on their next year's budget.

Such a pity. So wasteful and it is the taxpayers who are bearing the burden for these actions. Typical bureaucracy at work. C'mon folks, take on a second job so we can keep the old wheels turning!

That sounds like something contractors who are getting paid guaranteed public money will do to make sure they get the most out of the job. This happens everywhere.

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by jfre81

That sounds like something contractors who are getting paid guaranteed public money will do to make sure they get the most out of the job. This happens everywhere.

Got you, but these are AISD employees, not contractors. Just following instructions from the school district.

[gregandvicky]

We live in central Texas and pay $2.41 per thousand of valuation. In Texas the appraisal district can raise assessed valued 10% a year no matter what the market is doing.
Completely out of control. Texas sucks.

[imaterry78259]

You should see all the Taj Mahal schools they are building in San Antonio with our property tax money. All the money goes to the contractors and superintendents. There is a new elementary schoo in the Stone Oak Subdivision in SA larger than the high school, middle school and elementary school that I went to. To top it off there is another one being built about a 1.5 miles away.

[jfre81]

After seeing the opposite in NC - new schools that look like glorified trailer parks - I would rather see my money go to something that's built for the long haul. But that's just me.