Bev760
819 posts
You do realize the Boomers paid the social security, medicare and all the handouts for the previous generations, right? Why do you think it should stop now because Gen Z finally has to pony up..
@jared_shult 22% of seniors live on social security without other sources of income. You try living on $1500/month and affording property taxes at the same time.
NEW: Rep. Nancy Mace proposes no property tax for senior citizens.
@furiadidonna @nw_wolfrunner Funny. My dad grew up in a 2 bedroom house. 6 kids 2 adults. Adults had beds in the living room. Kids slept 3 to a bedroom. Millennials/Gen Z cry if they don’t have their own safe space.
Seniors should not be priced out of a house they already paid for because the area around them got more expensive. They didn’t suddenly get richer because Zillow says the house is worth more. Most of them are living on fixed income, paying higher insurance, higher utilities, higher groceries, and then the tax bill shows up like they somehow got a raise. People can argue all day about how to fund schools and services, and that part does matter. But making older homeowners keep rebuying the same house every year through property taxes is exactly why so many people feel like ownership is never really ownership.
boomers cry about property taxes because their homes have increased so much in value (they love that part) but they’re mad they have to pay taxes based on the higher value of their homes (they think that part is unfair.)
Seniors should not be priced out of a house they already paid for because the area around them got more expensive. They didn’t suddenly get richer because Zillow says the house is worth more. Most of them are living on fixed income, paying higher insurance, higher utilities, higher groceries, and then the tax bill shows up like they somehow got a raise. People can argue all day about how to fund schools and services, and that part does matter. But making older homeowners keep rebuying the same house every year through property taxes is exactly why so many people feel like ownership is never really ownership.
No senior should have to pay property taxes. They worked hard all their life, paid their mortgage and when they retire they should not be afraid of losing it due to property taxes. This is not a one state issue, should be in all states.
My 95 year old grandmother pays $2000 in property taxes & another $3000 in school taxes every single year on a house that was built in 1850 that is falling apart. She was widowed in 1973 & as a single mother of 6 worked everyday of her life until she was in her mid 70s. She gets $10,000 a year from the federal government to live on, but once you subtract $5000 in taxes she is left with $5000 for the rest of the year to buy food, supplies & bills. Are people really this uneducated on this issue? Oh my god.
At the meta level, the vibecession question is simple: either you believe the economy is worse than during the Great Recession, as consumer sentiment implies, despite ~0 empirical evidence to this effect, or you agree that there's a gap between sentiment and material conditions.
Our seniors should not pay property taxes.
