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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by JAlexoid on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:10PM (#27451816)
Property taxes are supposed to cover your local government's running services - police, fire brigade, trash/sanitation, water and roads.

Properly distributed, they should not be high.

Property taxes are not a slush fund for the government, nor should they be deferrable. They are intended to be running expenses.

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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by nathanaldensr on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:44PM (#27455382)
And the fact property taxes are often used as a slush fund makes those of us paying attention very sensitive to their increase. With those taxes comes bureaucratic power and control, often leading to more taxes and less of a say over how one lives one's life.
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