Re: Best response to landowner tax complaints?

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:31:02 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I'm getting pretty fed up of listening to all the homeowners around here
>piss and moan.

"Oh, no! The community put another $50K into my pocket last year for
doing nothing, and now I'll have to pay back a few hundred dollars of
it! No fair! I should get to keep it all, and not have to pay any
back. After all, who says welfare should only be for the poor? The
community only gave me about five times as much as it gave a welfare
queen; I should be getting more than that, even though I'm not doing
any more to earn it than the welfare queen is."

>The irritating aspect is that no one is presenting the other
>side. And the local (county-level) income tax is pretty steep, and hardly
>progressive.

?? They levy an _income_ tax?!? Same argument applies: earned income
is a measure of what the recipient contributes to the wealth of the
community by his productive efforts. Land value is a measure of what
the community contributes to the wealth of the landowner for doing
absolutely nothing whatever.

-- Roy L
.

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