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Now we're going to have a half dozen more posts about misplaced decimal points and/or percentage signs. Maybe somehow we can get some maps thrown in as well.
Yes, it's .90% or .0090 My tax rate is .0086. I did recently see it billed on a realty site as .8600, so I guess even realtors (!) can get it confused.
As I stated in the other thread the average teacher salary is only $48,000 on Long Island. So there must be something else other than salaries that are causing the high taxes.
And if you only look at public school teacher it's only $46,000.
Welcome to New York State. If you work for the government or public services you get paid well. If you work in the private sector you get paid peanuts. This isn't about teacher salaries, it's about public vs. private. New York State is hostile to the private sector in many ways. The only private sector jobs that are getting paid well here are healthcare and elite Manhattan business. It's obvious that NYS does not like private sector industry by having high taxes for residents and business and not wanting to promote private company growth. Even "Socialist California" is more private sector friendly than New York.
The high taxes mean more than public sector salaries. It's like the state sending a message "work in the public sector or be prepared to get paid nothing and have high taxes."
I've spent my working life doing public service and can guarantee you that the average public servant is not getting rich. Only an R-Pug fool does not realize that this is the exception and not the norm we are talking about here.
And the only reason this stuff happens is the lack of interest in following up with what is going on in your own government and mindless paying of taxes. If the money flows, it will be spent so that they can ask for more next year and spend that. That tax money bucket is going to be distributed no doubt. And distributed disproportionately to loyal political friends and contractor buddies.
Instead of tearing down the public sector the private guys should be fighting for unions and pensions and improving their salaries.
It's a fools idea to drive labor into the dirt. it benefits no one except the aristocracy - R-pug libertarian jackass.
Oh my...
Translated - it is close to impossible for me to know which houses around me have the exact same tax rate(and share the exact same burden) since I need to know the intersection of the 20 or so sets you are talking about.
But it's safe to assume that the ones that are the closest - on my street, my block - are most likely to be taxed at the same rate as me and to share the same burden...
It is logical to conclude that it is beneficial to have less neighbors grieving their taxes .
Though, with the school taxes forming the bulk of the taxes - maybe variations from sharing the other 19 entities are not too significant...
thanks again.
No it is not logical.
What is logical, is that Everyone should grieve their taxes all the time Every Year all the time!!!!!
SOOOOO the basis is under microscopic close scrutiny and corrected. What do you think this is magic or something? The information is public for a reason, so that it is your responsibility to make it correct.
Fight for it please, it is your right!!!!
Yeah, that's very optimistic on the impact our actions have - like calling for a social revolution.
Until that happens, I think the "egotistical logic" is at play.
Is not that I do not agree with you what "should be", I just don't think it will be.
Instead of tearing down the public sector the private guys should be fighting for unions and pensions and improving their salaries.
It's a fools idea to drive labor into the dirt. it benefits no one except the aristocracy - R-pug libertarian jackass.
Thanks and have a nice day.
Well this is certainly true. Tearing down the rights of labor to organize will take us back to the age of the robber barons when workers were little more than chattel. Corporations are there to make profits, and with few exceptions will always take the road most profitable unless the law forces them to do otherwise. This is especially true in a globalized world when workers are competing not only with their countrymen but also the whole world's labor pool. Americans will never be able to compete with developing countries by lowering taxes or loosening regulations, that will just line the pockets of the plutocrats while they ship our jobs to china and toxify our land and water.
Unfortunately humans are subject to crab mentality - tearing down others because it's easier to do that than demand and bring about positive changes in your own situation.
Well this is certainly true. Tearing down the rights of labor to organize will take us back to the age of the robber barons when workers were little more than chattel. Corporations are there to make profits, and with few exceptions will always take the road most profitable unless the law forces them to do otherwise. This is especially true in a globalized world when workers are competing not only with their countrymen but also the whole world's labor pool. Americans will never be able to compete with developing countries by lowering taxes or loosening regulations, that will just line the pockets of the plutocrats while they ship our jobs to china and toxify our land and water.
Unfortunately humans are subject to crab mentality - tearing down others because it's easier to do that than demand and bring about positive changes in your own situation.
Sounds like you're voting for Romney.
What you said is so true and should be easy enough for a 5 year old to understand, but somehow if fails to penetrate the grey matter of some people.
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That is the biggest load of BS i ever heard.
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Yeah, that's very optimistic on the impact our actions have - like calling for a social revolution.
