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North Dakota - Ending Property Taxes
6-11-12 BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them.
In an election here on Tuesday, residents of North Dakota will consider a measure that reaches far beyond any of that — one that abolishes the property tax entirely.
“I would like to be able to know that my home, no matter what happens to my income or my life, is not going to be taken away from me because I can’t pay a tax,” said Susan Beehler, one in a group of North Dakotans who have pressed for an amendment to the state’s Constitution to end the property tax. They argue that the tax is unpredictable, inconsistent, counter to the concept of property ownership and needless in a state that, thanks in part to wildly successful oil drilling, finds itself in the rare circumstance of carrying budget reserves.
“When,” Ms. Beehler asked, “did we come to believe that government should get rich and we should get poor?”
Polls conducted last month and last week suggest that voters here overwhelmingly oppose the ballot measure to ban the property tax.
Still, even if the measure here fails on Tuesday, the notion is picking up steam in some Republican circles in other states, including North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania.
“No tax should have the power to leave you homeless,” said Jim Cox, a state representative in Pennsylvania who has proposed legislation to eliminate the school property tax in the state where, he said, such taxes have led to residents’ losing homes to sheriff’s sales, entering into reverse mortgages or simply moving away.
More at New York Times June 11 2012
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Re: North Dakota - Ending Property Taxes
The New York Times claims that North Dakota has budget reserves because North Dakota has oil. Nonsense. North Dakota has budget reserves because North Dakota has a public bank. For this reason, ND also has extremely low unemployment and consumer debt.
As for property taxes, they should be abolished. They are a permanent bankers’ lien on private property. A country that calls itself "free" has no business taxing private property and income.
Get rid of the private bankers, and there would be no need for property taxes or income taxes. Of course, the taxes would continue anyway, because there are always parasitic bureaucrats in government. They want their cut.
“Polls conducted last month and last week suggest that voters here overwhelmingly oppose the ballot measure to ban the property tax.”
Lies. Voters are never in favor of being taxed, although some voters stupidly think that any reduction of taxes is a scheme by the rich to get richer. The probem is not that the rich are not taxed enough, but that the masses are taxed too much.
Moreover, the government triples the price that your property would actually sell for, declares the concocted figure to be the correct value, and taxes you accordingly.
“Those who want to keep the property tax have vastly out spent the opponents, gathering more than $500,000, campaign finance reports show.”
Translation: ND state government bureaucrats (e.g. Gov. Jack Dalrymple) steal the property tax revenue, and they are bribing appropriate officials to rig the election, so that the tax – and the theft -- will continue. All tax revenue goes to bankers and politicians. Whatever scraps are left over goes to highways, city buses, public works projects, etc.
Of course, if the election were fair, and ND did eliminate its property tax, then the bureaucrats would punish the masses with all new taxes on something else.
Money is just bits of paper. Why can't the government just print it? What do we need any taxes at all? Why must we always be in debt? Why must we suffer? Why are questions like these considered silly?
I'll tell you why. Because 85 percent of the people out there are selfish, stupid maggots. They deserve to be enslaved.