Take a moment to read this discussion of property taxes.
In my area, there are fees for fire. It’s a flat fee of about $400, to pay for the fire department. That’s not an ad valorem tax, so it isn’t based upon the value of my house. All homes in the area are charged this flat fee. Commercial and apartment buildings pay different rates. That’s as it should be- everyone receives the same service, everyone pays the same rate.
This is what I imagine taxes becoming if Amendment 3 passes. Everyone pays the same rate for the same service. The cost of services divided by the number of tax parcels should equal the amount of taxes everyone pays.
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Joe blow · October 19, 2026 at 10:18 am
I find it comical how people who claim to be ‘free’ banter about how best to spend other people’s money.
This is the inevitable portion of things. The slide to socialism is always and only ever in one direction, until it blows up and you start over. The logic at work in the conversation above is the proof of theorem.
Plague Monk · October 19, 2026 at 10:37 am
Most of our property taxes here in the NE suburbs of Cincinnati go to the schools. More and more families are home-schooling, but we are getting lots of Hispanics. In my neighborhood, we have several houses with less than 1000 sq-ft that are housing 4-6 families each. The school district loves this because of all the kids flooding into the schools. They don’t teach very much; my district is essentially a day-care center.
Every week, I get Latino realtors trying to get me to sell my 13 year old, @2000 sq ft house. I have been told that 10 families could fit into it, with about 40 residents. Having lived in crowded rooming houses while working on contracts, I believe it.
What I’d like to see is school taxes should only be paid by families with children enrolled in the pubic schools. An alternative is to have school tax voting done where voters are identified as to how they vote. If one votes for school taxes, one pays the tax. Those that don’t vote for the tax don’t pay the tax.
I’d also like to see unicorns walking around the neighborhood and dragons soaring above…
TRX · October 19, 2026 at 1:01 pm
> Everyone pays the same rate for the same service. The cost of services divided by the number of tax parcels should equal the amount of taxes e
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[gasp!] “That’s… that’s…” [flips through card file] “that’s RACIST!”
Anonymous · October 19, 2026 at 1:04 pm
On Property Taxes, where did you get the assumption that people should pay only for what they receive in services? It is very arbitrary, but you failed to note that fact. Did you somehow confuse shopping in a supermarket with living in a nation? Stop writing silly stuff!
Divemedic · October 19, 2026 at 1:32 pm
Why else would I want to pay for things that someone else gets? That’s nothing but theft. However, that isn’t the discussion here. I am saying that, in the case of property taxes, each person should pay the same amount for benefits that come to individuals, and each household should pay the same for services which serve property.
For example, school taxes should be per student. Even if you want to argue that each person who lives in a given area benefits from schools, then each person should pay the same. A household with five people would pay 5 times what a single household would.
In the case of fire service, each house would pay a flat fee. Alternatively, houses could be charged based upon square footage. A 1,000 square foot house would pay half what a 2,000 square foot house would pay.
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Are you using a VPN, or are you actually from Argentina?
gary gray · October 19, 2026 at 6:53 pm
This is the silliest thing I have read in at least a month.
I got a better idea, how about “user fees”, you use it, you pay for it.
You know, like in real life?
There are only 2 kinds of people in favor of property taxes, they that benefit from them and they that don’t pay them – you seem to fit in both categories.
dc · October 19, 2026 at 7:40 pm
Well, Putnam County just raised taxes ahead of the upcoming election so the County would not ‘lose’ funding for fire and schools.
School funding might be better served if we used sales taxes vice homeowners taxes.
Fido · October 19, 2026 at 11:07 pm
“how about “user fees”, you use it, you pay for it.”
That would be my preference. For some time critical services, like fire and police, you might want subscription, like being “on retianer”.
It would seem to me that support for “free will”, or “the sovereignty of the individual”, means that everyone must be free to decline… payment, and services.
Some of us, having seen the state of many public services, have, at great personal expense, replaced them.
How many would like receiving an elecric bill which is the total cost of the utility, divided by the number of parcels… including those parcels which have no interest in the service, who are also billed?
Birdog357 · October 20, 2026 at 7:11 pm
“How many would like receiving an elecric bill which is the total cost of the utility, divided by the number of parcels… including those parcels which have no interest in the service, who are also billed?”
Funny you should mention that, because where I live our utility costs have skyrocketed to pay for the upgrades for all the data centers they are ramming up our asses. We get nothing out of the deal.
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