Not claiming tips would illegal. I can't believe all you law abiding Americans do this? Really makes little sense to cut a tax many people cheat to avoid paying anyway. Only the waitresses win.

The problem with a tax that everybody pays the same amount, the people at the lower end may not even make enough money to pay their amount.


Almost everybody pay taxes, just not income taxes.

My granddaughters home school is taught on the computer by teachers from wherever they want to sit in front of a computer. The teachers wages are paid by a school district that set up the homeschool, hundreds of miles away. I bet some property tax is funding some of that but not mine or my daughters, we pay the local schools costs.

I don't see the equality in every one paying the same amount income tax, if middle class makes 33k a year and the rich make 200k a year, just where is the equality if the 33k pay only 1200.00 and the 200k only pay 1200 , how is that worked out, if the higher value worker makes more how is this even, if the lower income have to pay what the higher would do if reversed ?

I'd rather see the step process for making more you pay more as it is now with a lot of the no tax paying schemes cut off !

I would also like to see the forever never ending property tax stopped after one buy's their home, and the property tax paid in the payment at time of saving worked out over the period of the loan. When your home is paid for your property tax is as well, unless you can pay that tax at time of signing the title to the property. If you are building on that property then you will be taxed once for the value of the house when finished and it's added into the payment of the total purchase.

The value of the home and property still advance no wishes that to stop, so whom ever buys it when it's up for sale will still pay the new value but the payment is still a onetime affair.

As it is now that property is charged into perpetuity to the family passing it down, or another buying it, it never stops and the only one reaping that benefit is the government, this was a sure minded thing when it passed into law, due to people not standing up against it, and lots of laws are the same way as now people are not even represented properly when our congress or state congress's meet to amend or add any laws !

No one ever sees anything else they own continue a property tax on ownership like a home does, this is out right stealing value from the owner !

Squirrel!

What do property taxes pay for? Not homeschool.

Property taxes are the rent you pay to be able to live on the land you rent from the government.

It’s the rent the charge to live on their land that we pretend to own.

What was the question?

Still beats renting

[/quote]About the same in some regards. If you stop paying the rent they kick you out. Same thing if you stop paying your property tax.

I pay $220 a year in taxes.House and land is paid for and live by my rules.Big diffrence then a $1000 or bigger monthly rent payment and live by someone elses rules