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Why is it so high? I'm not sure but I'll take a stab at it - you are paying for your own police, sanitation, etc etc. You are paying the salaries of all these people and their ridiculous benefits.
Living in a village has many benefits, living Hempstead Village - probably not so much.
DH and I looked at a house in Cathedral Gardens way back in the day - taxes were high even back then. We thought the house was actually in W. Hempstead. Pointed out the taxes to the RE Agent and commented on the school portion. His reponse "you send your kids to Catholic school right up the road!" Oh, OK.
Because Hempstead has its own police force and you know on LI they come at a PREMIUM $$$$.
I would never live in a Village with their own police force because there's much less people (only those in the Village) to support the 6 figure police. The Village taxes are always several thousand $$$$ above Villages that don't have their own police force PLUS you don't get much of a discount off the County taxes for not using the County police patrol. Look at Hempstead, Malverne, RVC, Lynbrook, etc., etc., etc. and it's all the same story: high Village taxes and high County taxes.
57% is salaries & benefits... most of it going to "public safety". And the benefits portion (pensions & health) is sky rocketing. So no relief in sight for Hempstead.
Hempstead also pays some money towards NCPD through county taxes, but not the full bill -- and they do utilize NCPD's services on many, many occasions. So it's not a complete waste of taxes.
57% is salaries & benefits... most of it going to "public safety". And the benefits portion (pensions & health) is sky rocketing. So no relief in sight for Hempstead.
Hempstead also pays some money towards NCPD through county taxes, but not the full bill -- and they do utilize NCPD's services on many, many occasions. So it's not a complete waste of taxes.
All the Villages have to utilize NCPD for specialized services like the (joke of a) crime lab, etc., so they barely get a discount on the County tax bill for police. What the Villages are mostly paying for is their own supervisors, patrolmen/ women and this personnel comes at a pretty price on LI. I much prefer relying wholly on the County police force because there are thousands and thousands of more taxpayers within the County than within my Village to help chip in to pay for them. I also don't see any pressing need for separate police, as NCPD can do the job satisfactorily in the vast majority of cases and there's no evidence that the small Village police officers are any better than anyone in NCPD.
I guess the benefit to this is, only wealthy people who can swing it will move in as the middle class will be taxed out.
6k in just village tax? wow.
If the area isn't an area befitting the "wealthy" then why would they move in? As a favor to the local government because the taxes are high and they can afford it? It doesn't make any sense. What benefit is there to the "wealthy" to move into middle class and working class neighborhoods?
More likely there will be more and more abandoned houses out there (see Detroit's many abandoned homes, a place whose high taxes contributed to the massive moveouts of its citizens and then lack of collected taxes contributed to its massive social problems) or we will see many single family houses illegally converted to "boardinghouses" by slumlords because with the high property taxes they can't make a "profit" off renting to a single family in them.
If the area isn't an area befitting the "wealthy" then why would they move in? As a favor to the local government because the taxes are high and they can afford it? It doesn't make any sense. What benefit is there to the "wealthy" to move into middle class and working class neighborhoods?
More likely there will be more and more abandoned houses out there (see Detroit's many abandoned homes, a place whose high taxes contributed to the massive moveouts of its citizens and then lack of collected taxes contributed to its massive social problems) or we will see many single family houses illegally converted to "boardinghouses" by slumlords because with the high property taxes they can't make a "profit" off renting to a single family in them.
Why cant the powers that be see this problem and address it now.
That is whats going to happen. Especially in a place like Hempstead with a nice so nice reputation.
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