Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Being taxed so badly on your home, property, utilities, income, investments...that you're forced to sell your home and live in an appliance box under the bridge until they find your cold, frozen carcus in the spring thaw.

We just got told our yearly water rates are jumping from $500/yr to $736/yr. Why? Because our city's watermains are 100 yrs. old and they lose more than 60% through leakage throughout the system.

Many of us are () this close to literally being taxed to death. And to think we're classified as middle-class, middle-income wage earners in our area.