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The idea of getting rid of property taxes is generational warfare.

Jack up the housing costs so no young people can ever afford to buy a house and then cut off the one way that affects YOUR living expenses.

FUCK YOU. Pay your damn taxes and I will pay mine.
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Who's talking about getting rid of property taxes entirely?

They're always monkeying with our Homestead exemption here but I've never heard anyone proposing getting rid of them entirely.

The revenue lost would be replaced with sales taxes or income taxes?
BlueVeins · 22-25
@MistyCee It's a common argument here in some states with very high retiree populations like Florida and Pennsylvania. IDK about the rest of the country.

The revenue lost would be replaced with sales taxes or income taxes?

God, I hope not sales taxes. Income taxes could be relatively reasonable but sales taxes are way worse lol.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@BlueVeins
God, I hope not sales taxes

Sales taxes and government fees are very regressive.
@BlueVeins I know, the lower classes are always squawking about how unfair regressive taxes like sales taxes are, and they even have the nerve to want to increase income taxes on higher wage earners, not to mention taxing capital gains and dividend income.

So, here's a genius idea. Instead of arguing about how fair or unfair a particular tax is, we can use tariffs.

We tell them tariffs are 1) not a tax; and 2) even if they are a tax, they're a tax paid by foreigners and not domestic businesses or consumers.

Obviously, that's not really true, but the lower classes are pretty dumb, and we can make them and small businesses tighten their belts, and pick and choose what worthy industries and even foreign companies get exemptions in exchange for bribes and political favors

/S 😈
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@MistyCee

Sort of like Mexico paying for that wall. 😉