An interesting article appeared in The Forum, Fargo, North Dakota, April 14, 2012, about property taxes in one county of Minnesota. (Yes, I’m from North Dakota, but property taxes are property taxes.) Here is the headline: “Becker residents see hefty tax hike”
When the bureaucrats certified the rate to Becker County, “…we certified it incorrectly, so we recertified it and they didn’t catch it.” (I don’t know, are county government workers called bureaucrats?) (And another thing: Who is the “they” they are referring to, who didn’t catch it?)
But the county is making up for it. What homeowners didn’t pay last year they have to pay this year. In other words, the bureaucrats can F*^% things up, and the homeowners have to pay for their mistakes.
Here’s a quote from one of the bureaucrats: “It’s unfortunate when it happens, but they didn’t pay it last year so they got an easy year.” (I suppose when facing the media--and one doesn't get a few moments to think of something politically-correct [or at least more acceptable, like he/she even cares about less financially-fortunate homeowners...,] one has to say something.)
“Unfortunate,” right. But there’s never an “easy” year when you are paying rent to the county to live in your own home.
Those people, the people who work in that lucrative trade of property taxes, they have a huge power over us homeowners: Need more money? Just raise property taxes. Make them pay. Sock it to them! Pay or get out of your home!
I don’t mean to be picking on the bureaucrats of Minnesota, as I’m sure property tax bureaucrats are the same nationwide…I wonder how they sleep at night…? After those sheriffs’ auctions—and they’ve been guaranteed their money—probably pretty well.
(That’s right, a person’s home can be bought just by paying the overdue taxes, which can probably be a pretty large amount sometimes, but think of it: What you worked for all your life can disappear that quickly.)
At the end I will say again: Homeowners should not have to pay rent to live in their own home, we should not have to keep buying it over and over and over.
HOMEOWNERS UNITE! VOTE TO ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES. NORTH DAKOTA WILL LEAD THE CHARGE.
Thanks folks
(Just as a side note, I read one time about property taxes being included in mortgage payments. I asked a so-called professional person about that. He didn’t know. It appeared that he didn’t even know he was paying taxes, and for sure didn’t know how much. He was that controlled by ‘The Powers That Be.’ So now I’m wondering how many homeowners with mortgages do not know that…?)
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