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abelenkpe

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29. You have a house?

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 01:57 AM

Dec 2011

Must be nice. We're priced out. Somehow two well paying jobs isn't enough to buy a home in CA where bubble prices still exist. You have a pension? Must be nice. 401ks for us. It's been fun watching them ride the roller coaster of the markets this past twenty years. You got to retire? We'll be lucky to afford that one day....

I understand you don't feel rich. How do you think we feel? How do you think kids just graduating today with no prospect of a good paying secure job because they've all been outsourced and large debts feel?

When people talk about raising taxes it's not about property tax. The top marginal rate under Eisenhower was 92 percent. Yet the rich were still fabulously rich and the middle class thrived. I'm sure we can raise taxes on the wealthy without endangering your ability to afford your property tax.

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We're not oddballs or unrealistic nutjobs. [View all] mmonk Dec 2011 OP

K&R me b zola Dec 2011 #1

What is your definition of "well to do?" NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #2

I know, but I don't think he's mentioning the million specifics? Merely a GENERAL CONCEPT that Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #5

I retired from an auto factory so I am not rich NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #11

Nope. You and I are the people we DO NOT mention regarding having to pay more taxes Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #12

Property taxes are local, not nation wide issues, Don Bluenorthwest Dec 2011 #13

Don't agree about this not being a federal issue NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #19

I know, Don. People are living on the edge. Right wingers have destroyed this country. Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #25

I'm a Marxist. Tax the 1% at a 99% rate socialist_n_TN Dec 2011 #35

You don't think I would be against that do ya? NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #37

They may not be directly a federal tax issue hootinholler Dec 2011 #28

That much of an increase is unconscionable. dawg Dec 2011 #20

$1200 is what the taxes on our home were when we moved in 22 years ago NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #21

Some people can't really understand a problem until they face it themselves. dawg Dec 2011 #22

And how much of that was attributable to the housing bubble? mmonk Dec 2011 #23

Most of it is attributable to our factories closing up NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #24

I was asking because home re-evaluations mmonk Dec 2011 #27

I haven't noticed that argument. mmonk Dec 2011 #6

The problem is that property tax is now the major form of wealth tax eridani Dec 2011 #26

You have a house? abelenkpe Dec 2011 #29

k&r unapatriciated Dec 2011 #3

I AGREE!!! And you're right. Opposers don't argue their position straight up. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #4

apparently, it's alright here to call someone defending the President 'morally bankrupt' bigtree Dec 2011 #7

That was not me and I don't condone that approach. mmonk Dec 2011 #10

If I as a gay man decided I could speak to all people based on the words of a few Bluenorthwest Dec 2011 #15

I see bigtree Dec 2011 #17

No sir, I must disagree. dawg Dec 2011 #8

Why do you hate UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2011 #9

hehehe SammyWinstonJack Dec 2011 #16

I'm a proud liberal leftie... ananda Dec 2011 #14

They do have that glazed over look. mmonk Dec 2011 #18

++ Those ideas are only extreme when viewed from an extreme point of view. DirkGently Dec 2011 #30

Exactly. mmonk Dec 2011 #33

purists don't accomplish much. MjolnirTime Dec 2011 #31

define "purist". nt tomp Dec 2011 #34

be careful, or some idiot will call you a PURIST Skittles Dec 2011 #32

I don't see too many people accusing others around here of being WI_DEM Dec 2011 #36