What will it take for you to join the property tax revolt?

[president]

Who owns Tanglewood Estates?

[FrankChodorov]

Who owns Tanglewood Estates?

the landlord nobility that's who...

[tracysaboe]

Tell them to stop paying property taxes and cut everybody rent proportionally.

TRacy

[FrankChodorov]

Tell them to stop paying property taxes and cut everybody rent proportionally.

is that what Leo Tolstoy would do?

[Fluff and Stuff]

That could be troublesome.  Doesn't that mean if the govt puts pressure on the landowner, that you guys could be evicted?

Yes, buit would be easy for the government to pick up the house and move it to a government lot.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Actually, older motor homes don't move well.  The plumbing and wiring don't like it. Seems open up and stuff.
When they come to take posession of your house to sell it where it is now, you could use Dead Prez's argument that you have been paying some taxes thru your payments to Tanglewood.

[FrankChodorov]

you could use Dead Prez's argument that you have been paying some taxes thru your payments to Tanglewood.

your not suggesting that the paying of economic rent to the landowner for access to the land is the equivalent of property taxes are you?

[Fluff and Stuff]

you could use Dead Prez's argument that you have been paying some taxes thru your payments to Tanglewood.

your not suggesting that the paying of economic rent to the landowner for access to the land are the equivalent of property taxes are you?

Of course not.  He is saying that the landlord has to pay property taxes and most of the taxes for the area they live on are passed on to them as part of their monthly rent and service bill. 

You can take the arguement to the extreme and say that they pay property taxes by shopping at Wal-Mart and buying a car from Dave's Auto, and going to Big Screen Movies, and the Southwestern New England Bank.  In other words, it will not hold up in court.

[KBCraig]

Haha.....they don't own the land....

So if they pay any kind of "rent" for the land their home is on, and the land lord pays the property tax, they are giving money to pay the property tax. 

Which brings up a good point: double taxation.

Unless the park owner's tax rate is reduced by the amount paid directly by tenants, somebody's getting ripped off.

Kevin

[Fluff and Stuff]

Which brings up a good point: double taxation.

Unless the park owner's tax rate is reduced by the amount paid directly by tenants, somebody's getting ripped off.

Kevin

What do you mean?  The land owner is taxed on the land and the house owner is taxed on the house.  That is not double taxation as each is taxed on their property.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Right

[Kat Kanning]

Right

Excellent post, Lloyd.  Karma for you.

[Lloyd Danforth]

smite or applaud?

[FTL_Ian]

Anyone else interested in answering the original question?


What will it take for you to join the property tax revolt?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Participation of either 10% of the property owners in a town or a proportion significant to compulse major consistant media attention.