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In Reply to: Many retirees are shafted by escalating local taxes. posted by Victor Khomenko on July 17, 2021 at 07:41:40:
most of them, are living off their Social Security benefits. If their property taxes are going up, it's dumb to worry about: it means their properties are ACCRUING. They can always sell at a greater profit than otherwise and relocate a bit further out.Taxes are what we pay mainly for education and police protection (non-federal).
It is good to know what life was like in those olden day "free" frontier towns, my friend. Murder rates in those macho, all-male societies have been estimated at 7% of a town's population. Things stabilized when the citizens got together and pooled resources to hire police. Yes, those were a form of taxation.
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