Property taxes should ABSOLUTELY be abolished. Otherwise you are PERMANENTLY renting YOUR LAND from the gov't, even if you paid off your house. The gov't can take it from you at any point.
Have to disagree with Charlie. I’m more against property tax than any other tax. When your money is taxed, and your spending is tax, WHY THE HELL IS THE THING YOU OWN TAXED?
Property tax is one of the few things I disagree with Charlie on. Property tax is theft and should be abolished. Especially since you pay property tax to own it. You pay a tax to buy it and sell it as well. Why is property taxed so heavily? It's a joke. I wanna abolish property tax.
Property tax is corrupt. It’s just one more way of making the poor poorer I was always taught that double taxation was unconstitutional but yet we are taxed over and over on the same dollar
A big problem with your facts is once the property tax is in the treasury or where ever it is kept, congress treats as their own and will spend it on whatever they want. I don't know that there is any oversight on what the property tax money is spent on. Does anybody out there know more than I do?
It is WAY past time for us to get with the times. Eliminate public education as it is today, all the information you need is on the internet. Teach the basics of language and math and history but let kids follow what they are passionate about. A child learns a subject they have a passion for at 20 times the rate of a subject they are disinterested in.
I like Charlie and agree with most everything he says but he is dead wrong about property tax, I have no children or schools within 15 miles of me so why should 40$% of my property tax go to fund schools, here in Florida we voted for the lottery which said in return they would pay for schools but mysteriously they came to Florida but somehow I'm still paying for schools?
The children who attend those schools are the service workers and leaders of the future. They will at some point either save or destroy this country. Do you care enough about the country to give them a fighting chance - or do you expect the country to fall apart? One of the hardest lessons I've learned in life came off as a personal attack on me: "It's not all about you." And as angry as those words made me, they sank in and saved my life. So I'll try to help you as well and say: It's not all about you. Except that, in the end, it actually is. You just can't always see it.
@@Libertarian1776 I'm not sure how old you are or how much longer you plan to stick around, but the public schools are churning out the next generation of taxpayers, brick layers, doctors and politicians. As a 50+-year-old woman, I have a tendency to ask myself: how much is it worth to get a decent set of societal props?
It might seem fair until you realize that the state is the one who assess the value. If the state wants more money, you're property value suddenly goes up.
@@wickedbird1538 that is great your mom is no longer responsible for paying property taxes. Not sure where she lives bit that is not the case everywhere. You do understand some folks in their later years are paying more in property taxes than their mortgage payment was. To me that is a crime. Where I live we pay more in school taxes than in real estate taxes. I do not nor have I ever had children in the local schools. They increase those school taxes every year.
It only applies to the elderly in houses under a certain value. I don’t know the limit. Her house is a small 2 bedroom 1 bath and she purchased it 40 years ago under some kind of neighborhood revitalization program near a college in Texas. She has a police training facility next door and neighbors who care about her. Fortunately, I have brothers with construction skills who keep it up. We are very lucky
