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Many states have property tax caps (of which Prop 13 is the best-known) which protect homeowners from "wildly increasing property taxes". Also, rental property is taxed at higher rates than owner-occupied homes in most states, so any property tax burden on homeowners is even worse on landlords and tenants - homeowners should be grateful for their privileged status. Worse, tax caps sometimes don't even apply to rental property: Michigan has a property tax cap but it also has a specific tax on rental property and a provision that allows voters to override the tax cap ('Headlee override') - so when assessments rise faster than the tax cap allows, voters are asked to override the cap on the rental property tax, which homeowners GLADLY vote for since the rental property tax is not levied on owner-occupied homes. (Voters are NEVER asked to override the cap on homeowner property taxes because it would be political suicide for any politician to ask homeowners to override their own tax cap.)
Sweet to be a homeowner in this country!
As for your second point, renters WHO ARE PRICED OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD REALIZE ZERO BENEFIT, They figuratively have shot themselves in the foot.
Caps?
The cap here is 10% IF you claim homestead. So if you don't think 10% a year increase EVERY YEAR (something I have been facing) isn't wildly increasing (already gone up several thousand), you can send me some of your extra bunches of cash you have lying around.
As someone whose family owns homes and rent them out (in Cali and Texas), I can tell you that it's pretty rare that you jump the rent on people. In fact, there have been times that we like the tenant so much that we barely raise it at all. Pricing "out of the market" would take years, even if you didn't think the way we do.
The law is designed to disqualify an individual on the basis of a charge?
NICS looks for pending charges even if you have been cleared for a firearms id or permit to purchase a pistol. they want to know if you were a bad boy since being approved to buy a gun. same goes for dropping off a gun for a repair, before you get it back a nics check is run....at least in NJ
as the laws are so interpretive gun shops err on the side of caution as clear answers to many questions are intentionally vague due to legal interpretation you get when two lawyers stand before a judge months or years after a sale.
So a gun control thread has now morphed into one with freemkt yet again whining how unfair it is to be a renter.
Typical huh
I know plenty of "homeowners" that lost their shirt to to fire, flood and other disasters. Probably the only thing replaced was their weapons thanks to insurance.
Typically here the shyster FFLs rob you in storage fees and other added on "fees".
so you think a business should store your stuff for free? and these other fees you blame on the FFLs might be forced on them by the state, did you ever think of that? commifornia is doing everything they can to raise revenues without "raising" taxes.
Caps?
The cap here is 10% IF you claim homestead. So if you don't think 10% a year increase EVERY YEAR (something I have been facing) isn't wildly increasing (already gone up several thousand), you can send me some of your extra bunches of cash you have lying around.
As someone whose family owns homes and rent them out (in Cali and Texas), I can tell you that it's pretty rare that you jump the rent on people. In fact, there have been times that we like the tenant so much that we barely raise it at all. Pricing "out of the market" would take years, even if you didn't think the way we do.
A 10% annual cap is ridiculous and sounds like something a liberal would do in order to 'look good' - see, I capped property taxes! - without actually giving taxpayers meaningful tax relief. Michigan has a 5% annual cap and it actually does keep homeowner property taxes well below what uncapped taxes would be.
Rents have been jumping in Portland the past two to three years. In those two to three years, many low-income residents have been priced out and/or become homeless. Many low-income renters are living on the economic margin, vulnerable to displacement and/or homelessness with only a modest rent increase - half of all low-income renters spend at least half their income on housing, according to Mortgage News Daily.
Reporter should do a follow up story on how long it takes to buy a gun off a guy on the street on the south side of Chicago....no questions asked.
My guess, for him it would take a little doing since they don't know him but for a neighborhood "member"....probably 5 minutes.
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