MGB: How much are your house property taxes? ADD your state

Was curious, since I believe the current Congress may try and tap into this revenue stream for "da programs", as they seem to believe their job is to pad their pockets, not serve the People or the good of the country....but that's another topic thread.

VOTE THE MUFFS OUT - ALL OF THEM.


House or land, ADD your state, and let's compare:

SOUTH CAROLINA: $150,000 house costs about $800/year in property tax

Not trying to be smart but....how do you know what the value of the home is at this point in time?

..for taxes...the assessed value as determined by big brother. I will look up mine. Chuck... btw...800 bucks.....???? you ain't even in the game.

arizona, 120,000 house , is 500$

I had a relative that lived in Connecticut - told me they were paying close to $8000 a year, $250k house, one reason they left.

Wow, blues 500. bucks.......??? how much more if you get drinking water with the house?

You can't be including school tax in those 500 / 800 figures.

Dave

summer home assessed value 2009 $69,200 1100 sq ft....total taxes not including water/sewer which we have to pay even though we have a well.....$2750.00+......our assessment in Michigan went up appx 2K from 2008 to 2009. EVERYBODY knows Michigan property values have tanked, yet the local Gov't INCREASES our property values.......so they can increase their wealth. They should be tarred and feathered.
We have corrupt Gov't that feather beds their own pockets,at the citizens expense ...this is ALL state county and local gov't employees.......corrupt union employees.....if I have offended anyone here with this statement......tuffski shitski. I have reams of proof, and have posted lots of it. This subject is an open wound with me and many of my friends. Things have to change. I have a friend running for city council/mayor on this very issue....yup he is real pissed.

I pay $8,000 per year in prop. taxes and my kids go to private schools...!

I want a refund.

mchenry county Illinois
$250k home we been here 24 years
$5200.00 tax (ouch!) and going up :I3:

[quote=dte948]
You can't be including school tax in those 500 / 800 figures.

Dave[/quote]

yes,. our tax bill includes school, fire department,
we have paved roads,. and city water, from the towns well,.
it is cheap living in AZ

470K home, taxes are $5200

California

[quote=dte948]
You can't be including school tax in those 500 / 800 figures.

Dave[/quote]

yessir, schools included, Aiken, South Carolina. We pay personal property on cars and boats, in addition (county); this is about $5.00 (yes five) for an MGB, and about $300/yr 2007 Ford Explorer; tags are about $25/year.

$6k in Guilford, Connecticut on a $360k valued home.

no water, no sewer, no garbage pickup

plus property taxes on my 3 cars and 3 motorcycles, plus we have a state income tax at 4.5%

here is one of many ways they raise our property taxes...and the mafia media is complicent in the shenannigans...they keep it as much under the radar as possible. This is but one of the ways they raise our taxes, by raising our property millages...and keeping the citizen in the dark as to the vote..


Taxed ENOUGH Already...

Genesee County voters went to the polls on Aug. 4 to decide the fate of a ballot proposal that would increase county property taxes by $100 million over 10 years to fund Hurley Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital owned and governed by the city of Flint. According to The Flint Journal, Friends of Hurley, a ballot committee organized in favor of the tax hike, raised nearly $500,000 to advocate for a "yes" vote. The Committee Against Tax Increases, a group created by activists from the Genesee Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party, was the only organized opposition and reportedly raised less than $5,000. Despite the 100-1 funding disadvantage, the TEA Party celebrated a razor-thin 50.71 percent victory after 62,727 ballots were tabulated.

The Journal reported that more than half of the campaign cash spent by Friends of Hurley went to Byrum & Fisk Advocacy, an East Lansing public affairs firm used by many Lansing politicians. Friends of Hurley communicated their message through mass direct mailings and television advertising.

With no money for mass mailings, television spots or professional political operatives, the Genesee TEA Party focused its limited resources on personal voter contact through door-to-door canvassing. This may have been a key to its success because — according to Cathy Tyler, one of the anti-tax activists interviewed by the Journal — many residents were unaware that a tax vote would be taking place.

The Genesee County Board of Commissioners voted 7-2 on May 26 to place the tax hike on the ballot. The millage would have increased property taxes for all county residents to benefit a hospital owned and governed by the city of Flint. Although regularly scheduled municipal elections in Flint coincided with the Aug. 4 date, only one other community in Genesee County had anything else scheduled for the ballot that day. Additionally, because Flint owns the hospital, some residents not residing within that city were under the mistaken impression that the tax hike and vote did not apply to them.

A clerk from one township in Genesee County told The Journal that many voters there would likely miss the vote because of this confusion. Her prediction was borne out. In contrast to the 221,598 Genesee County residents who voted in the November 2008 general election — representing more than 63 percent of those eligible — less than 63,000 participated in the Hurley millage.

Having bested the tax-hike supporters by only 887 votes, knocking on the doors of those non-Flint voters and getting them to the polls appears to have made a big difference for the TEA Party. Though a "yes" vote prevailed in every single precinct within Flint, the "no" votes carried the overwhelming majority of precincts outside of it. Gwen Jensen of Fenton told The Journal that she spent every day of the final month of the campaign distributing anti-millage literature. Her work appears to have paid off: The proposal was rejected by 78 percent of Fenton and Fenton Township, giving the "no" side a 2,276 vote cushion from those two communities alone.

"We changed the votes of people, because we informed them," TEA Party head Mike Gardner told The Journal on election night.

The Lowdown is written by Kenneth M. Braun, senior managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential. He may be reached at braun@mackinac.org
Next page: Did You Know?

here is who the city of Flint and the "non profit" hospital hired to promote the millage increase.........
http://www.byrumfisk.com/
here is who she is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Byrum

corrupt underhanded union backed, and ready to rob ya blind.

more of who they are.........

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=9669...
this clap trap got taken to the Michigan Supreme Court and got thrown out as unconstitutional.....

this is what passes as leadership in our state.

Ca-Bakersfield: house is taxed on 160K--taxes are ~$2400.00/year. I'm taxed on what I paid, not what it's worth and there is a built in adjustment (up of course--you have to fight to get it to go down). This includes the sewer and trash, not water, as well has the assessments for all of the schools.

[quote=walshja]
$6k in Guilford, Connecticut on a $360k valued home.

no water, no sewer, no garbage pickup

plus property taxes on my 3 cars and 3 motorcycles, plus we have a state income tax at 4.5%[/quote]

My wife is from Wallingford Ct. Small town sorta close to Guilford.

Cook county, Chicago, Illinois - Rogers Park $375,000 home $7,000 taxes

[quote=77mgb80]
mchenry county Illinois
$250k home we been here 24 years
$5200.00 tax (ouch!) and going up :I3:[/quote]

My Iowa Taxes 200K home are $3600 per annum. In Illinois I own two buildings and four lots purchase price 125K, $10,000 per annum. In Florida I own a condo 1200 sq ft paid 36K $800...lots of loop holes in FL btw.
I'd suspect CA, IL, MI, NY would set the pace for taxing its citizens. Probably PA and OH not far behind. Anywhere you have a great populous, and more gov't it equtes to more taxes. More Gov't means more unions in the form of Afscme
and teachers unions
...in the case of Wyatt, I wonder if anyone is not in a Union in MI except of course their bosses and the politicans who are "beholding...

[quote=don4975]
[quote=walshja]
$6k in Guilford, Connecticut on a $360k valued home.

no water, no sewer, no garbage pickup

plus property taxes on my 3 cars and 3 motorcycles, plus we have a state income tax at 4.5%[/quote]

My wife is from Wallingford Ct. Small town sorta close to Guilford.[/quote]

closer than sorta !! maybe a 15 minute backroads drive. Wallingford is the town my Midget came from as well.

how long ago she leave Wallingford?

She left Wallingford in 1987 to move to Maryland. I met her in 88. She lived on Ray Road.
I like Wallingford since it reminded me of Mayberry from Andy Griffin Show. I was married there and had reception @ Lyman Orchard.

I should add: We paid 138K for the house right before the prices went through the roof. Added a pool which took the "value" to 160K. During the boom, our house "value" went to 400K--really, they sold for 400k on each side of us. Now, they're going for 210K. So, what's the value? My neighbors, who each sold for 400k told me I should sell and buy two blocks north in the new neighborhood. My answer, nope, my house payment would have stayed the same, but the my property taxes would have gone from an assessment of 160 to 400 and that's what would have gotten me. Now, I wonder what their house "value" is?

Upstate New York, located on a man-made lake...assessed value is $250K...total taxes for the year is $8400....ouch. No services other than garbage pickup and a fire department that has never lost a chimney or foundation. We pay taxes on the assessed value, not what we paid for the house. Every time the country needs more $$$$ they just reassess the homes.

Hey Barney...you live on a lake???? I say....soak the rich!

Phoenix, AZ, Maricopa County: 1200 Sq Ft, $192.5K value = $1456/year property taxes.

$130K house in our part of TX, school, city, county etc. taxes are about $3400 this year. Rougly $3 / $100

My property taxes on 180.000 dollar home is 459.00 dollars
per year. Alabama has some of the lowest property taxes in the nation.

......thats why Forest Gump lives there...he ain't no dummy......

I thought Forest lived in SC?

Come on down Wyatt, There is always room for one more!

[quote=blues]
arizona, 120,000 house , is 500$[/quote]

Crap. How about state income tax????