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Do the voters have NO say in this?
Does PA have a referendum process, that they can propose a property-tax freeze on property already owned? Like California's Prop. 13.
This has to stop. Has to be made to stop.
The voters can fire the assholes raising rates, these people are elected.Do the voters have NO say in this?
Does PA have a referendum process, that they can propose a property-tax freeze on property already owned? Like California's Prop. 13.
This has to stop. Has to be made to stop.
It's not who votes, that counts - but who counts the votes.The voters can fire the assholes raising rates, these people are elected.
As I see it, the problem here isn't just assessment of market value - although that can be, frequently is, messed up, deliberately. It's jacking up the rates.You can vote for different people and you can challenge certain assessments.
I'm in Bucks County:
PA in general:Board of Assessment Appeals | Bucks County, PA
The primary function of the board, which is comprised of three members, is to determine the current market value of all properties in the county and calculate the appropriate assessment.www.buckscounty.gov
Property Tax Appeal in PA
Considering filing a dispute on your tax assessment? Here are 5 reasons to consider a property tax appeal. Our real estate attorneys can help.highswartz.com
Over the years I've heard talk about reform but it never materialized.
That woman is a witch.
And that source is a Party website.
I wanna see the FINE PRINT.
Yeah, here in snowflake city that level is $40,000.It's always about the income limits. In order to get the break your income will most likely have to be around poverty level.
26K here.Yeah, here in snowflake city that level is $40,000.
Didn’t their property valuation go up over those thirteen years? My rate has increased slightly, but my valuation has gone up 30% in five years, and my tax and the government’s revenue proportionately.Lower Merion commissioners approve 8% tax hike, citing 'looming cliff' after 13 years of no increase
Lower Merion residents will see an 8% increase on their property tax bill in 2026, a move commissioners say is a necessary remedy to the “mistake” of keeping tax rates stagnant for over a decade.
The township board of commissioners on Dec. 17 approved an 8% property tax increase for next year. The increase will bring the property tax millage rate from 4.462 mills to 4.819 mills. The median single-family homeowner in Lower Merion will pay around $1,386 in real estate taxes, a $103 increase from 2025.
More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...s-of-no-increase/ar-AA1SV88M?ocid=socialshare
Bucks County...is that Warren?
They'd appreciate it if you'd quit trying to throw a monkey wrench into their plans to spend more money.Didn’t their property valuation go up over those thirteen years? My rate has increased slightly, but my valuation has gone up 30% in five years, and my tax and the government’s revenue proportionately.
For some reason I thought it was just over the state line.Warren is somewhere in the upper NW part of the state.
Just over the border with Jersey. Nice place first wife and I used to make the trip down there to these artsy craftsy places in the Fall. 50 years ago no idea what it's like now. Not cheap for sure.For some reason I thought it was just over the state line.
I never lived in PA, but I lived in Chautauqua County, on and off, for about seven years. Back in the 1970s, we used to get a lot of teens from Warren, come up, drive to Jamestown...buy booze (drinking age was 18 in NY)...and then drive over to our village of nothing-but summer residences (200 permanent residents) and drink on empty cul-de-sacs. Or drive and drink. Or drink and fornicate. In any proportion of the three.
I had a buddy who was a cop there, and he had plenty of stories. The beer he liberated from those kids, kept him from having to buy any.
How 'bout they just cut spending to match their new level of income?Still waiting to hear how counties are going to make up the tax loss, birds chirpin..
Point is, cut revenue coming in, and there's no choice but to cut spending.You have a better chance of getting Trump to stop blowing Netanyahu....Just shut down the Sheriff department and give that responsibility to the state.
Get rid of government pensions.Still waiting to hear how counties are going to make up the tax loss, birds chirpin..
Nice solution.Get rid of government pensions.
Very likely all pensions will die soon, that's why I went with investment pensions, I transferred my money out of their hands.Get rid of government pensions.
Which is why the only solution is to starve them of revenue.There's so many ways we can look at these issues but 1 thing remains clear. Our elected officials will never fix anything and will in fact, over time, make things worse.
It sure would be. Insurance and gov involvement is the root cause of out of control healthcare costs.However I have stated before that health care would be affordable to all if we just did away with health insurance altogether.
Yep. Not only does the people pay for all healthcare costs, they pay all the insurance companies costs as well as their profit, as well as the government bureaucracy costs of them trying to regulate it.What are we really doing here? Just paying a corporation huge profits to pay our medical bills for us? The bills are way over priced to begin with just because the medical industry and latch onto someones medical policy and make huge profits for them as well.
A couple years ago someone I know had to have a cat scan. The insurance deductible was 1600 for it. A year later they needed a follow up and didn't have insurance. Out of pocket cost for the same scan was less than 1/2 the insurance deductible when they had insurance. She was like why am I paying for insurance if things are cheaper without it. It's all a racket designed to empty your wallet into the big corporations shareholders hands.
Notice you never see a statement of what the charges will be at hospitals? It's all up to their discretion.
My WAG is they can replace it with what's in the center of a Lifesaver. Everybody wants to cut spending and starting with local governments could be a way to set an example for the Feds.Still waiting to hear how counties are going to make up the tax loss, birds chirpin..
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