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Originally Posted by Sly
That scenario happens far too often. It isn't just your state. Like you said, a tax is introduced to conquer a certain problem... once that certain problem is conquered, that tax should disappear. Instead, that tax money gets shifted to other areas that may not even be necessary and you end up back at square one. Five years later when that initial certain problem starts up again, they find something else to tax. And the cycle repeats.
Taxes should have limits or goals. They should not be a tax sitting out there in the open for all to rape.
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Exactly. When the lottery started paying for the schools everything was great then they moved more and more money elsewhere. The problem was this area became one of the most popular places in the nation to relocate to so we we went through a population explosion which meant the schools needed more money. So now that the lottery money was going elsewhere they went back to their favorite fall back, property taxes. The crazy thing was several years ago there was a measure passed that limited the amount of property tax the state could put on your house (mean they capped the dollar per thousand tax rate at a certain number.) So within two years of that measure being passed suddenly every house started going up in value. If the state couldn't increase the percentage they could get, they will just raise the value of your house and get it that way.