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| Liberal Austin homeowners surprised to find they have to pay all the taxes they voted for |
| 2014-06-03 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #16 I talked to a vendor rep a few weeks ago, a fellow that lives in Austin, and was under the impression that the rest of us in Texas were going to buy this crap for them. It seems Detroit thought the same thing about the rest of their state picking up the tab. How'd that work out? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-03 22:37 |
| #15 I am waiting for the same light bulb to come on here in California, the land of the perpetual approval of bond issues for everything from schools to PTSD therapy for bullied poodles. Sadly, as long as we have San Francisco and San Jose in the state, we are going to have bond issue piled on bond issue to finance the previous bond issue etc...ad nauseum. Luckily, for Texas, that mindset has not metastasized into the rest of the state. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-03 22:00 |
| #14 The extra profits from exterior sales will be recycled into higher land prices. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-06-03 19:24 |
| #13 Wecome to The People's Republic of Travis County. I talked to a vendor rep a few weeks ago, a fellow that lives in Austin, and was under the impression that the rest of us in Texas were going to buy this crap for them. WRONG! |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-03 18:43 |
| #12 Today's cover story in "DUH!" magazine... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-06-03 18:11 |
| #11 ..thus their belief in the "Magical Money Tree" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-03 16:25 |
| #10 Someone is finding out 'they' are the 'other people's money' they've been spending. Thanks rube. File under useful idiots. Theu still won't get it. She's an "artist". She doesn't think. Economics is magic to those kinds of people. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-06-03 16:13 |
| #9 "Liberal Austin homeowners surprised to find they have to pay all the taxes they voted for" Heh.™ |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-06-03 15:51 |
| #8 Austin is the San Francisco of Texas, go 10 miles in any direction of Austin and you find a lot of distain and dislike for the crowd that migrated to Texas with Xerox and other techic companies from Californicate. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-03 14:53 |
| #7 much of texas has decided to lean toward more sales tax and away from more property tax the sales tax, while slightly regressive, does capture purchases by tourists; also, much of Austin is public land (e.g., University, State Govt) which does not by property tax but the people employed there do buy stuff and would have to pay sales tax |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-06-03 13:47 |
| #6 Only a faux Free-market think tank would suggest swapping land-value (however imprecise) for deffered income taxes aKA sales. Maybe some remedial Adam Smith or David Ricardo might help this rather lost "think" tank? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-06-03 13:34 |
| #5 Liberal Austin homeowners surprised to find they have to pay all the taxes they voted for SUprise, SUprise, SUprise -Gomer Pyle, USMC |
| Posted by: BigEdLB 2014-06-03 13:23 |
| #4 Someone is finding out 'they' are the 'other people's money' they've been spending. Thanks rube. File under useful idiots. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-03 13:19 |
| #3 This is like running up the credit card and then being surprised when you get the bill. You mean I have to *pay* for all this stuff? That's not fair! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-06-03 12:53 |
| #2 I suggest a tax on Democratic voting. :-) |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-06-03 12:32 |
| #1 “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.” Someone needs to educate you on who will pay for all those nice things you voted for. This is left's mentality in a nutshell. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-06-03 11:41 |