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In New Jersey, which has the highest property taxes in the nation, the mindset is to never question your taxes and cheerfully pay them because it’s for the schools and if you don’t like your high taxes, you are right wing nut job and you want New Jersey to become like Arkansas. Meanwhile, you’d be hard pressed to find many decent schools in that state except in segregated neighborhoods surrounded by very poor areas. How I believe this relates to the current topic thread is because California and New Jersey are both known for having high property taxes. I do not think that the mindset is any different in California than it is in New Jersey. additionally, many people who have mortgages just escrow in their property taxes so they don’t even know what they’re paying. They just pay a monthly payment and they have no idea how much goes to the principal interest or taxes.
Tax revolt in Kalifornia? I'll believe it when I see it. The Progressive Kult wont allow it.
The video didnt mention that Prop 13 was based on property taxes, hence every home owner had skin in the game (and still do). That is the only reason it passed, plus Californians in 1978 were much closer to being sane, unlike today. Today the sane ones leave the state if they can.
In New Jersey, which has the highest property taxes in the nation, the mindset is to never question your taxes and cheerfully pay them because it’s for the schools and if you don’t like your high taxes, you are right wing nut job and you want New Jersey to become like Arkansas. Meanwhile, you’d be hard pressed to find many decent schools in that state except in segregated neighborhoods surrounded by very poor areas. How I believe this relates to the current topic thread is because California and New Jersey are both known for having high property taxes. I do not think that the mindset is any different in California than it is in New Jersey. additionally, many people who have mortgages just escrow in their property taxes so they don’t even know what they’re paying. They just pay a monthly payment and they have no idea how much goes to the principal interest or taxes.
Unlike California or new jersey, in my area we pay less than 1/100th the property taxes [both per avre and sq footage wise], But this is a different culture. My nearest fire department brags that th÷you have never lost a concrete foundation to a house fire.
Seems to center on some proposals to make take hikes easier. One wants to lower the vote threshold to raise taxes. Another proposal wants to make it harder to legislate tax payer protections. Both should be a no vote or not pass.
Seems to center on some proposals to make take hikes easier. One wants to lower the vote threshold to raise taxes. Another proposal wants to make it harder to legislate tax payer protections. Both should be a no vote or not pass.
Yeah, I wouldnt call resisting that a "tax revolt", but just more trying to slow that train some.
In New Jersey, which has the highest property taxes in the nation, the mindset is to never question your taxes and cheerfully pay them because it’s for the schools and if you don’t like your high taxes, you are right wing nut job and you want New Jersey to become like Arkansas. Meanwhile, you’d be hard pressed to find many decent schools in that state except in segregated neighborhoods surrounded by very poor areas. How I believe this relates to the current topic thread is because California and New Jersey are both known for having high property taxes. I do not think that the mindset is any different in California than it is in New Jersey. additionally, many people who have mortgages just escrow in their property taxes so they don’t even know what they’re paying. They just pay a monthly payment and they have no idea how much goes to the principal interest or taxes.
CA is the NY/NJ/CT of the west coast.
Funny how many people who have that mindset about schools don't even think of all the money they get from taxpayers who foot their own kids bill to send them to private/parochial schools. Last time I looked it up, it is about 13% and about 6% are homeschooled, which means the public school systems have that much more money/resources without the extra children to teach and take care of.
Sadly most are a mess teaching to the lowest common denominator, and to top it all off, countless illegal alien children are going to school on everyone else's dime.
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