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Austin Homeowners Realize Taxes Cost Money
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:04 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:04 pm
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“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year.
"It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
The voting is the easy part.
The paying - that's the hard part.
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This post was edited on 6/3/14 at 1:33 am
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Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:07 pm to the808bass
Friend of mine moved to Austin and thought he was getting a big break due to no income taxes, but he pays more in extra property taxes than he ever did in income taxes.
He still likes it there, though.
He still likes it there, though.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:08 pm to the808bass
Link?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:16 pm to the808bass
If she's been there since 1991, then she has accumulated wealth by way of appreciation of home value. She can always get a reverse mortgage. Plus, in Texas, she can claim an exemption from paying taxes when due if she's old enough. The state will take its taxes, plus interest, from the estate upon death.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:17 pm to the808bass
I wish she would realize that government services are almost always more expensive than private counterparts.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:21 pm to Asgard Device
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Friend of mine moved to Austin and thought he was getting a big break due to no income taxes, but he pays more in extra property taxes than he ever did in income taxes.
Just moved my family to TX after taking a job in Houston.
After factoring no state income tax, with much higher property tax, which decentralizes state government to remain local, with better public schools so that I'm not longer paying to send my kids to private school, plus higher income since I'm in Houston instead of Lafayette area...
No Brainer!
I'll move back to Louisiana one day, but not until my kids are done with high school, and most likely not until I'm retired.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:58 pm to the808bass
This is the kind of person that flees the consequences of liberalism only to frick up her new home by voting for what she fled.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 12:10 am to the808bass
I love when people learn how to do math.
And I don't think she was asking for an exemption. She's protesting her property tax appraisal notice which pretty much everyone does here every 2-5 years based on the growth in your area. Our entire neighborhood paid as a group for professional comparisons and reports done that we each used for our individual protest. We've done it twice in 10 years and got the number adjusted downward.
And you can't use Austin as an example for cost/benefit analysis for most of Texas. Cost of living there is insane compared to most other big cities in the state. As another poster said, we MUCH rather pay property taxes and keep our money local. Our schools show why that works. I miss Louisiana but will never move back while we have kids. We get so much more for our money here and, very honestly, it's nice to speak to educated people on a regular basis and not hear, "Serve you?" when I'm placing an order.
And I don't think she was asking for an exemption. She's protesting her property tax appraisal notice which pretty much everyone does here every 2-5 years based on the growth in your area. Our entire neighborhood paid as a group for professional comparisons and reports done that we each used for our individual protest. We've done it twice in 10 years and got the number adjusted downward.
And you can't use Austin as an example for cost/benefit analysis for most of Texas. Cost of living there is insane compared to most other big cities in the state. As another poster said, we MUCH rather pay property taxes and keep our money local. Our schools show why that works. I miss Louisiana but will never move back while we have kids. We get so much more for our money here and, very honestly, it's nice to speak to educated people on a regular basis and not hear, "Serve you?" when I'm placing an order.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 12:12 am to ragincajun03
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After factoring no state income tax, with much higher property tax, which decentralizes state government to remain local, with better public schools so that I'm not longer paying to send my kids to private school, plus higher income since I'm in Houston instead of Lafayette area... No Brainer! I'll move back to Louisiana one day, but not until my kids are done with high school, and most likely not until I'm retired.
Same here. Although I have spent most of my life in Houston. Outside my first five years and my undergrad at LSU, I've lived in Texas. The trade off of no state taxes or paying for private schools versus property taxes is a no brainier right now. Once I retire I will be off to some where more friendly when it comes to property taxes.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 1:32 am to Paul Allen
Apologies.
Added.
Added.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 3:36 am to HubbaBubba
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If she's been there since 1991, then she has accumulated wealth by way of appreciation of home value. She can always get a reverse mortgage. Plus, in Texas, she can claim an exemption from paying taxes when due if she's old enough. The state will take its taxes, plus interest, from the estate upon death.
Great, solve excessive taxation problems by redistributing homeowner's wealth. Liberal utopia.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:23 am to the808bass
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"It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better............. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
Let me translate for this asswipe.
I want a lot of cool shite in the place I live but I'll be damned if I think I should have to pay for it. Surely there's some RICH folks that can provide all this to me!!!
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:31 am to ShortyRob
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It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better............. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne
Liberal's actions are based on their feelings, with no effort to apply logic and forethought to the consequences.
500 years ago they wouldn't have survived without modern civilization to take care of them. I miss Darwinism.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:36 am to SoulGlo
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This is the kind of person that flees the consequences of liberalism only to frick up her new home by voting for what she fled.
AAAAAMMMEN!!!! EXACTLY!!!
I live just outside of Austin (Dripping Springs), and this is EXACTLY what all the California liberals are doing to Texas.
Libeals are exactly like a cancer... they destroy the place they're at... then move somewhere conservative that's working and destroy that too.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:37 am to the808bass
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By Lori Hawkins and Shonda Novak - American-Statesman Staff ? On a recent evening, more than 300 homeowners who are worried about their rising property tax bills filled First Unitarian Universalist Church in North Austin for a town hall meeting. If something doesn’t change, many said, they will soon be priced out of their homes.
i hope none of these people were part of any gentrification
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More and more families are being driven out of the city because they can’t afford to live there.”
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A key problem, critics say, is that the current system has shifted a disproportionate share of the burden of paying for schools and local services on homeowners, in favor of commercial and corporate interests who can afford to appeal their values and win big reductions year after year.
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They were among residential property owners across town, but particularly in Central Austin neighborhoods and gentrifying East Austin,
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:38 am to TygerTyger
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It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better............. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
The funny part of this quote is that the last half has pretty much zero to do with the first half.
He says it isn't that he doesn't like paying taxes and one would assume this would lead to examples of him SUPPORTING a tax or two. Alas, he gave examples of votes for stuff.
That's like Toddy saying, "It isn't that I don't like girls......I have bought at least 5 new cars in the last 10 years".
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:40 am to SlowFlowPro
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A key problem, critics say, is that the current system has shifted a disproportionate share of the burden of paying for schools and local services on homeowners, in favor of commercial and corporate interests who can afford to appeal their values and win big reductions year after year.
In other words. "We moved here and promptly wanted a lot of cool shite but our plan was to have the people and companies already here pay for our new shite".
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:40 am to ShortyRob
Property taxes stay local in Texas. You pay them to your county tax assessor, not the state.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:42 am to LSUGrrrl
quote:I'm aware of this.
Property taxes stay local in Texas. You pay them to your county tax assessor, not the state.
Posted on 6/3/14 at 7:57 am to the808bass
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"It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
Liberals.
I guess she should protest her appraisal notice while looking in the mirror.
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