They Keep Taking Our Money and Ignoring Our Priorities (scampydog)

Taxes Not the freshest topic - many justified complainers, nobody shuts up about them, and nearly every politician insists this time it’ll be different. We all know the cycle: Promise big…Collect small, Over report….Deliver little…Blame others…Repeat.

Politicians treat taxes the way linguists treat grammar: obsessively, creatively, and with a hammer of righteous. A new noun appears? They’ll find a way to tax it. A new verb? There’s a fee for that too. The left, in particular, gets excited about conjugating taxes - a new tense, a new bracket, a new license. If it exists in language or life, it exists in their desire to tax it.

New York: Tax the Rich

Recent tax theater: Courtesy of NYC’s gobemouche voters (thanks for the novel word, CBD) and Sharia fan, Zohran Mamdani, who has proposed the most predictable tax plan. A plan that is apparently loved by young, female voters.

• Raise city income tax by 2% for those earning over $1M
• Raise corporate tax from 6.5% to 11.5% (a barely noticeable 77% hike). Incidentally, matches the Garden State's rate. What a cuck.

Florida and Texas, close your borders or ready your welcome committee. Better yet, hire the best honey badger gatekeeper that money can buy.

Pollyanna-style, the Zohran plan calls for $9B a year in fancy new tax revenue. Quick, rhetorical question: Has any tax hike delivered what it promised (besides kickbacks and insider stock tips)? Taxes are Kickstarter campaigns: generation of excitement of the easily impressionable around an oblique idea with clouded intentions and delivery problems.

However, a study from Columbia Business School estimates that if corporate taxes and high-earner surcharges lead to accelerated relocations, the city could see up to $50 billion in lost GDP and between 150,000 and 200,000 finance-related jobs disappear over several years. And should investor confidence falter, rating agencies such as Moody’s and S&P could reevaluate the city’s municipal bond rating, raising the cost of public borrowing. This would complicate Mamdani’s ability to fund new housing and infrastructure—a tension his administration will need to manage carefully.

If this passes, which requires the NY legislature and Governor Hochul’s signature (she’s up for re-election in 2026), high earners and corporations definitely won’t flee… Scout’s honor.

Minnesota: Hotdish of Hidden Taxes

Let’s hit some flyover country and hidden/invisible taxes. Minnesota delivers the waste stream hotdish. Solid waste taxes rise with a Minnesota Nice smile and style. “We are encouraging environmental stewardship.” Translation: We found a new noun – garbage - and we are taxing it.

The Minnesota trash/waste plan offers a better return than ESPN’s extortion model to streaming services and cable providers. Quick side bar. ESPN is charging Next TV $9.42 per subscriber. ESPN/Disney/Groomerville.

Case study: Kandiyohi County built a shiny new transfer station, overspent, and now requires unrealistic volumes at predatory rates to be landfilled there - logistics be damned. Tip: the economics don’t favor haulers or the public. The result? A subtle mace to the face disguised as local planning. Reminds someone of Silver State Disposal back in the 90’s. Only hauler in the greater Las Vegas area. And they were not shy about wielding their power.

Not all landfills are created equal. In Minnesota, cardboard is classified as MSW (municipal solid waste – household garbage) vs. C/D (construction and demolition) waste. C/D landfills need to separate and transfer if it ends up at their facility – generally speaking their permits do not allow for landfilling. There is no market to recycle cardboard or plastic (whether “high value” PET or HDPE). Currently both are net losers. More accurately, the cost of processing exceeds the price to sell. What is the county solution? Raise the invisible taxes and force behavioral patterns they want.

Take a gander at this flairless spreadsheet snip.

Colorado: Tax Yourself

Heading west, Colorado voters recently approved new taxes for themselves – ignoring the millions spent around telling them not to. One cannot underestimate the power of wine box AWFL’s and stupid. Like watching someone argue in their mirror. Coloradans: Government wastes my money. Take more! We don’t trust government, let’s give them more money to prove it.

Colorado lever pullers just voted their approval on Proposition MM and LL. Both of which are for the “free school meals” program. Households earning over $300k got themselves a tax increase (via less state income tax reductions / write offs).

The Rest of the West

• California: In the rarest moment, California did not have any statewide ballot measure around taxes in the 2025 election. We are shocked, Californians. Do better.

• Oregon and Washington… hold my Bacardi. Oregon has a few items winding their way through the process. House Bill 2025 would increase fuel tax, vehicle fees, EV fees, and transit payroll tax (transit payroll tax...read that again). Portland being Portland wants to raise property taxes from $0.80 to $1.40 per $1,000 assessed value - a shy, barely noticeable 75% jump.

• Washington passed a fuel tax increase of 6 cents per gallon – a smooth 12%. Going from 49.4 cents to 55.4 cents. Per gallon. Bonus (There is always a bonus with blue states). They pegged a 2% annual increase onto it. Geometrically, this math is not a friend.

Proposed Taxes

Probably giving them ideas, but let’s close the rant with a bit of silly and fun.

Easy ones: TikTok Tax, Fish Lips Selfie Tax, Emoji Essays Tax.

A bit more vinegar: Chi-Chi Coffee Shop Tax, Statement Bags and Attire Tax, Hidden Spots - Traveler Locales Tax, Influencers Tax (special taxing district, 175% dumbass Tax).

Recommended: Sharia Law Tax, Adhan/Azan - Hayya ‘ala-s-Salah Tax, Goat Loving Tax, Marry Your Brother Tax, Hijab Tax.

Across the country, the story is the same: We keep paying for priorities we didn’t choose.

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1 Back on duty

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

2 And dutifully called em

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

3 �

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 09, 2025 12:03 PM (WL2lA)

4 Other people's money is the paying taxpayer, eventually they are broken and can't pay the tax man.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:03 PM (+qU29)

5 Politicians, or rather, the people who rule over us, do not see the rest of us as real people.

Trump is a rare exception.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 09, 2025 12:04 PM (WL2lA)

6 Also, they bring in a bunch of foreigners to raid the treasury of our vocabulary.

Or is it they let in a bunch of foreign words that take the jobs American words won't do?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:05 PM (nb4Tz)

7 Condom tax?
I thought they stayed on by themselves.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 09, 2025 12:06 PM (3daQF)

8 They don't get any new ideas they already know on taxing people.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:07 PM (+qU29)

9
Wouldn't it be great if we taxpayers could specify where our tax money should be used.

I'm sick of leeches benefiting from those of us hard-working people.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 09, 2025 12:07 PM (3ek7K)

10 Politicians, or rather, the people who rule over us, do not see the rest of us as real people.

Trump is a rare exception.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 09, 2025 12:04 PM (WL2lA)

I've come to believe they don't believe money is real either.

All this talk of reducing spending, balancing budgets and cutting debt, they obviously don't see any reason why they should.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:07 PM (nb4Tz)

11 New York is just more proof that the United States sees envy, hatred and resentment as great moral virtues.

If you are saying to yourself "Don't be ridiculous, Cow Demon! That's not true!!! Grow up!" OK, read our laws, and look at our governments. There are countless politicians that would not be permitted to enter government if this country did not think so much of envy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:08 PM (vwL3N)

12 J'accuse scampydog of stealth editing!
😆

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 09, 2025 12:08 PM (WL2lA)

13 Condom tax?
I thought they stayed on by themselves.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 09, 2025 12:06 PM (3daQF)

Well, look at you, Mr. Four Inches.

What about the little guy?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:08 PM (nb4Tz)

14 Main reason I'm not too scared of Mamdani is that socialist/communist regimes only have initial success when they take over capitalist economies that are already producing large amounts of wealth.
But as a going concern, NYC is already running on fumes. Massively raising taxes easily pushes them over the edge, and not having the power to print money is a big problem. I'm sure they're counting on big bailouts from Uncle Sugar, but that's not going to happen.
And unlike a century ago, there's no serious barriers to any NYC corporation moving to some other part of the country. Hardly an inconvenience, as the Pitch Guy would say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK8)

15 13 Condom tax?
I thought they stayed on by themselves.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 09, 2025 12:06 PM (3daQF)

Ouch

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

16 All this talk of reducing spending, balancing budgets and cutting debt, they obviously don't see any reason why they should.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:07 PM (nb4Tz)

The Amarillo Community Calendar, in a rare story of serious note, pointed out that something like 15% (if I read it right) of registered voters participated in the election of 2025. Seventeen Constitutional amendments might have been of some importance...

Why should politicians take things seriously when we clearly do not?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:10 PM (vwL3N)

17 My often comment we are in the Looting the treasury will also apply to NY in a bit smaller scale. Money will flow from tax payers to Leftists groups. A whole new bureaucracy will be needed to run the free apartments for instance.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:10 PM (+qU29)

18 What NYC needs to do is have Nancy Pelosi invest what money they have until there revenue targets are met. That woman has the Midas touch.

It would be like the loaves and fishes Bible story.

Light snow here today. I'm putting up the rest of the Christmas lights. Canadian Thanksgiving was Oct 13 and Halloween is done. This is why things go up outside November 1st......

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:11 PM (Sco7b)

19 State motto: If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at November 09, 2025 12:11 PM (XQo4F)

20 Their

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:12 PM (Sco7b)

21 So I see Trump is starving people..He told States to not fully fund SNAP... Of course Mr. Sombrero is all over the airwaves with this with the lapdog media...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:12 PM (VE6XX)

22 Why should politicians take things seriously when we clearly do not?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:10 PM (vwL3N)

It used to be said that citizens have the luxury of not voting when everything is going fine, but when troubled times come, everyone goes to the polls.

Doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:12 PM (nb4Tz)

23 As I remember, remember the Ninth of November, I am watching old news broadcasts from 9.11.1989.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:12 PM (vwL3N)

24 I keep hearing inklings of these very majority Muslim cities proposing a tax on non-believers. I think over the next 1-3 years we will see the true end goal take form.

Posted by: LOR VIA at November 09, 2025 12:13 PM (+uTfj)

25 17 My often comment we are in the Looting the treasury will also apply to NY in a bit smaller scale. Money will flow from tax payers to Leftists groups. A whole new bureaucracy will be needed to run the free apartments for instance.
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:10 PM (+qU29)

Which is why communism always quickly becomes a repressive dictatorship, even if it doesn't start off that way. If productive and talented people are allowed to leave, the entire thing breaks down quite quickly.
But Mamdani isn't at a high enough level to impose the kinds of restrictions he needs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 12:13 PM (uWKK8)

26 State motto: If you can dream it, we can tax it.
Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at November 09, 2025 12:11 PM (XQo4F)

Same with Colorado.

Beautiful state. Terrible people. At least on the Eastern Front.

Oh well, I'm still close enough to visit.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:14 PM (nb4Tz)

27 J'accuse scampydog of stealth editing!
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Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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*whistles innocently, slowly slips on by*

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:14 PM (LVaYG)

28 24 I keep hearing inklings of these very majority Muslim cities proposing a tax on non-believers. I think over the next 1-3 years we will see the true end goal take form.
Posted by: LOR VIA at November 09, 2025 12:13 PM (+uTfj)

No, because if that happens the Fed Gov would have to impose martial law and suspend local government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 12:14 PM (uWKK8)

29 Going to pay my property taxes tomorrow. We just passed a new constitutional amendment here in Texas last week that actually lowered my property taxes by $902 a year. That's a big chunk of money.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 09, 2025 12:14 PM (0N4FZ)

30 It used to be said that citizens have the luxury of not voting when everything is going fine, but when troubled times come, everyone goes to the polls.

Doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:12 PM (nb4Tz)

Much laziness about. One of the biggest reasons I am vehemently opposed to term limits. If we want to avoid the examples outlined at the top of the thread, the people ought to vote for it.

Me, I hit every election there is, and have, above the computer, addresses for elected officials. Still I have more to do, like go to county commissioners' court meetings and school board meetings. Self-government is a bitch but it is worth it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:16 PM (vwL3N)

31 I keep hearing inklings of these very majority Muslim cities proposing a tax on non-believers. I think over the next 1-3 years we will see the true end goal take form.
Posted by: LOR VIA at November 09, 2025 12:13 PM (+uTfj)

At some point states have the right to revoke the charter of cities that can't govern themselves.

I would argue, the fed can do the same for states.

Unlike the last civil war, this one will not be states seceding, but fedgov doing the kicking out.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:16 PM (nb4Tz)

32 29 Going to pay my property taxes tomorrow. We just passed a new constitutional amendment here in Texas last week that actually lowered my property taxes by $902 a year. That's a big chunk of money.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 09, 2025 12:14 PM (0N4FZ)

Bond issues need to be voted down, each and every time. And taxing entities need to be forced to apply the no-new-revenue rate (or the old "effective rate") every single time it comes up. The real problems in governance in TX occur on the local level.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:18 PM (vwL3N)

33 It's not that they tax the shit out of the producers, but it's that they spend it on the moochers and looters.

Gimme, gimme, gimme.

If the shutdown of the federal crime syndicate has taught me anything, it's that the federal government is no longer needed.

Posted by: It's A Swindle, A Swindle at November 09, 2025 12:19 PM (R/m4+)

34 The government is a tax partner in my retirement IRA account. They tell me when to take minimum withdrawals and how much I need to take. All of their recommendations are subject to taxes (possibly resulting in penalties called IRMAA). It’s a real game.

Posted by: High tech at November 09, 2025 12:19 PM (37cEZ)

35 I'd like to see government programs 'privatized.'

For example, Canada has unemployment insurance and workmen's comp. With the accompanying government bureaucracy.

Instead, I'd like to see people's paycheck's docked a bit, the money put into some sort of account of the person's choosing, maybe even insurance, and if they become unemployed they have access to what they saved. And then no more.

And get rid of the government bureaucracy.

That dream will be taxed.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:20 PM (Sco7b)

36
Our property tax here in Wyoming is 1500 dollars.

When we lived in Illinois years ago the property tax was 18,000 a year.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 09, 2025 12:20 PM (3ek7K)

37
Bond issues need to be voted down, each and every time. And taxing entities need to be forced to apply the no-new-revenue rate (or the old "effective rate") every single time it comes up. The real problems in governance in TX occur on the local level.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:18 PM (vwL3N

CA never saw a tax increase it didn't like... I guess they were too busy with their steal of Republican districts to get one on the ballot this time...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

38 Bond issues need to be voted down, each and every time. And taxing entities need to be forced to apply the no-new-revenue rate (or the old "effective rate") every single time it comes up. The real problems in governance in TX occur on the local level.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:18 PM (vwL3N)

Colorado had a law, which I think they repealed, where the state had to return any funds they didn't use to the taxpayer.

I don't recall if it was program specific funds, or the general treasury. I know there was a measure on the ballot, and I'm pretty sure it passed that said "Yeah, when we get ahold of the money, we're never giving it back."

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:23 PM (nb4Tz)

39 funny thing is tariffs and taxes might not cover their spending so they print more money. They don’t have to print actual bills anymore they can just create money. I would like a magic printing press to pay my taxes. That would be funny.

Posted by: High tech at November 09, 2025 12:23 PM (37cEZ)

40 Condoms are festive little hats.

And Garbage Disposal should be free in Minnesota. Lots of old strip mines that can be filled with plastic and cardboard. Just leveling up the state.

Posted by: Public Nuisance at November 09, 2025 12:24 PM (oftw2)

41 Instead, I'd like to see people's paycheck's docked a bit, the money put into some sort of account of the person's choosing, maybe even insurance, and if they become unemployed they have access to what they saved. And then no more.

And get rid of the government bureaucracy.

That dream will be taxed.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:20 PM (Sco7b)

That's another thing the unions ruined. They had all their workers contribute to their own pension funds, and then promptly gave the funds to mobsters.

It was such a massive racket, the government came in and were made to look like the good guys.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:26 PM (nb4Tz)

42 I'd like to see government programs 'privatized.'

For example, Canada has unemployment insurance and workmen's comp. With the accompanying government bureaucracy.

Instead, I'd like to see people's paycheck's docked a bit, the money put into some sort of account of the person's choosing, maybe even insurance, and if they become unemployed they have access to what they saved. And then no more.

And get rid of the government bureaucracy.

That dream will be taxed.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:20 PM (Sco7b)

That's too logical for Canada. Plus what about the people who have it down to a science how many weeks they need to work to be on the pogey the rest of the year?

Posted by: Vendette at November 09, 2025 12:26 PM (MR1yy)

43 And Garbage Disposal should be free in Minnesota. Lots of old strip mines that can be filled with plastic and cardboard. Just leveling up the state.
Posted by: Public Nuisance at November 09, 2025 12:24 PM (oftw2)

Nothing is free.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:26 PM (vwL3N)

44 When the Muzzies get control the rest of us will have to pay Jizzya

Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:27 PM (W7XSX)

45 Citizens shouldn't have to be too involved with voting, as government is quite limited...(ok, ok, stop laughing)

Besides, Texas is closed. Buc-ee's out front should have told you...

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 12:28 PM (tubbA)

46 I would like a magic printing press to pay my taxes. That would be funny.
Posted by: High tech at November 09, 2025 12:23 PM (37cEZ)

It's a valid question: Why do they need to tax us at all?

The answer? They don't! We're taxed to keep us in line, not because their magic printing press can't just be turned on to magically fund whatever they want.

The idea that government spending is tied to what we are forced to give them is a massive joke.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:28 PM (nb4Tz)

47 45 Citizens shouldn't have to be too involved with voting, as government is quite limited...(ok, ok, stop laughing)

Well, if citizens DID get involved, MAYBE government would be more limited.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:29 PM (vwL3N)

48 44 When the Muzzies get control the rest of us will have to pay Jizzya
Posted by: no one

Wait just a minute and I'll have your Jizzya right here....

Posted by: Stroker Davis at November 09, 2025 12:29 PM (oftw2)

49 Wait just a minute and I'll have your Jizzya right here....
Posted by: Stroker Davis at November 09, 2025 12:29 PM (oftw2)

It takes you a minute?

You stud you.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:30 PM (nb4Tz)

50 A lot of these taxes seem aimed more at controlling behavior than raising revenue.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 09, 2025 12:31 PM (GPa4z)

51 Well, if citizens DID get involved, MAYBE government would be more limited.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 09, 2025 12:29 PM (vwL3N)

As long as the ones who want more limited government outnumber those who want the opposite, and from my experience it's often the latter who show up more.

Posted by: Vendette at November 09, 2025 12:31 PM (MR1yy)

52
The state of Oregon has upped taxes and fees to maintain the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.
However, it is rumored that in the face of possible curtailment of federal funds the state has become dependent on, the taxes will once again be increased and the official motto of the state, "She Flies On Her Own Wings" will be modified by the legislature to "F___ You, Pay Me"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2025 12:31 PM (rbvCR)

53 "Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not ... thingy."

"Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?"

Posted by: it's always been a joke at November 09, 2025 12:31 PM (sPsWv)

54 The idea that government spending is tied to what we are forced to give them is a massive joke"

Here, have a trillion dollar coin...

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 12:32 PM (tubbA)

55 " lowered my property taxes by $902 a year. That's a big chunk of money."

In SC, my $902 is 70% of my property tax bill.

Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:33 PM (W7XSX)

56 DataRepublican has now dug up papers and even videoes from a group at USAID that are still active after being fired. They're working with foreign actors to overthrow the entire Federal government, and yes, they're involved with both Antifa and No Kings.

I know this all sounds like an Alex Jones fever dream, but like Bond villains these people have to gloat about everything even when they haven't actually done anything. So if you know where to look you can find where they've documented everything themselves.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh3def6

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2025 12:34 PM (wa3mR)

57 That's too logical for Canada. Plus what about the people who have it down to a science how many weeks they need to work to be on the pogey the rest of the year?
Posted by: Vendette at November 09, 2025 12:26 PM (MR1yy)

There are entire economic sectors that know how the game is played. Especially seasonal workers....

They're not much different than the invaders of the West knowing how to get all the free crap.

Economic implosion will be fun....they're going to love it.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (Sco7b)

58 That's one of the things Tucker did for us.

Got Pence to expose himself when pressing him about why he's whining about Ukraine not having enough tanks when Americans are struggling with inflation and high crime and Pence said, 'that's not my concern'.

True mask off moment.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (setIA)

59 This talk of taxes reminds me, I want to be able to tell my doctor I'm drinking about 2 cups of coffee a day... without lying.

I had three cups yesterday, and only one cup today. But if I'm being honest, in order to get to the two cups a day average, I'll have to stop drinking coffee altogether.

Until sometime around March 2029.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (nb4Tz)

60 When the Muzzies get control the rest of us will have to pay Jizzya
Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:27 PM (W7XSX)
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NYC is pretty far down that path already and it will only get worse.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (IBQGV)

61 55 " lowered my property taxes by $902 a year. That's a big chunk of money."

In SC, my $902 is 70% of my property tax bill.
Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:33 PM (W7XSX)

Here in CA my tax bill is around 5000 dollars and it's only that "low" because of Prop 13 which keeps it down.. The Dems have tried for years to remove it but if they succeeded most home owners couldn't pay it because of home prices here....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

62 A lot of these taxes seem aimed more at controlling behavior than raising revenue.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 09, 2025 12:31 PM (GPa4z)

Yup. For example, you can tell a lot about an area's governance by how much the government sticks its nose into what you can and can't put into your trash bin.

Posted by: Vendette at November 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iTYM3)

63 Washington also passed a total tax passage that was the biggest in it's history and Olympia is already bitching that it isn't enough.
There will be a tipping point.
Seattle has already normalized "enthusiastic" riots so turn-about is fair play, right?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2025 12:38 PM (2WIwB)

64 Let’s hit some flyover country and hidden/invisible taxes. Minnesota delivers the waste stream hotdish. Solid waste taxes rise with a Minnesota Nice smile and style. “We are encouraging environmental stewardship.” Translation: We found a new noun – garbage - and we are taxing it.

Please to explain how this differs from Mafia control of waste disposal in NYC.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

65 In SC, my $902 is 70% of my property tax bill.
Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:33 PM (W7XSX)

Some people live in states where their pee pee tax is larger than their mortgage payment.

I call those states places where I would never live.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:38 PM (nb4Tz)

66 you can tell a lot about an area's governance by how much the government sticks its nose into what you can and can't put into your trash bin."

Yeah. Back when Montgomery county MD hired "inspectors" to walk around inspecting trash bins for proper sorting (btw, residential disposal sorts, not recycle)...
That worked out well...

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 12:39 PM (tubbA)

67 And unlike a century ago, there's no serious barriers to any NYC corporation moving to some other part of the country. Hardly an inconvenience, as the Pitch Guy would say.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Not so fast, there....

Posted by: Exit Taxes at November 09, 2025 12:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

68 Doc asked me "How many drinks do you consume per day? 2-3?"
I said "Shit, I spill that much".

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 09, 2025 12:42 PM (MNCvZ)

69 Not so fast, there....
Posted by: Exit Taxes at November 09, 2025 12:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

If you beat your slave enough when they're young, you don't have to put chains on them when they're old and strong enough to strangle you to death in your sleep.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:43 PM (nb4Tz)

70 Washington also passed a total tax passage that was the biggest in it's history and Olympia is already bitching that it isn't enough.
There will be a tipping point.
Seattle has already normalized "enthusiastic" riots so turn-about is fair play, right?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 09, 2025 12:38 PM

We bailed out of connecticut 15 years ago because of *historic* tax increases. It was almost every other year they somehow got a huge tax increase passed through the legislature. 15 years ago I was paying more in property tax on a 65 year old 1200 SF ranch house on a smaller lot than I currently pay on a 12 year old house here in Texas that is almost twice as big with a lot that is three times the size of the one we had in CT.

Plus we paid state income tax in CT as well.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 09, 2025 12:43 PM (0N4FZ)

71 Here in CA my tax bill is around 5000 dollars and it's only that "low" because of Prop 13 which keeps it down.. The Dems have tried for years to remove it but if they succeeded most home owners couldn't pay it because of home prices here....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

I'm in a small farming community in Canada. My house is a four level split, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and about 2200 square feet. Home prices exploded in Canada the last several years and the place was appraised at $530,000 after Mom passed. My taxes are a little over $4000 Canadian a year. Not great but not horrible.

Considering I faced homelessness for 5 months, I'll take it.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:44 PM (Sco7b)

72 WA still has an ICE ban coming up soon, so gas taxes are rather irrelevant. I have to admit the math works out to bring my own gas into WA if I have room in the back for it and have to go there.

OR has been fucking people for years with new minimum lot sizes to build. Coupled with property tax hikes, pending bans on agricultural uses, and new confiscatory taxes on land/ag that will be "forgiven" if you sell to the state at a steep discount matching the taxes owed (fucking lol), they are pretty much nearinng the Zimbabwe phase.... quietly.

CO is doing the same as OR. I expect other blue cesspits to start following suit.

I think CA actually passed gas tax hikes by roundabout rescinding some tax cuts

Posted by: heya at November 09, 2025 12:44 PM (WysWL)

73 Considering I faced homelessness for 5 months, I'll take it.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 12:44 PM (Sco7b)

I'm so glad everything worked out for you

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

74 Doc asked me "How many drinks do you consume per day? 2-3?"
I said "Shit, I spill that much".
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
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Dr. told uncle to cut back his beer consumption. Follow up visit he said yeah, "I'm drinking a couple less cans a night. I switched to 16 ouncers."

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 12:46 PM (LVaYG)

75 "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - the movie:

https://tinyurl.com/4f2djs7h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 12:46 PM (yS/3v)

76 Doc asked me "How many drinks do you consume per day? 2-3?"
I said "Shit, I spill that much".
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 09, 2025 12:42 PM (MNCvZ)

I'm sorry doc, I didn't quite hear you, my ice cubes were clacking, did you say per hour?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:46 PM (nb4Tz)

77 OK, it’s not what it’s all about.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 09, 2025 12:48 PM (sjlIG)

78
The idea that government spending is tied to what we are forced to give them is a massive joke.
Posted by: BurtTC

A 38 trillion debt testifies to that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 12:49 PM (pkeXY)

79 "I want to be able to tell my doctor I'm drinking about 2 cups of coffee a day... without lying."

I really do drink two cups of coffee a day now, and that is real cups, as in eight ounces. So one mug.

Alcohol, well, less than one cup ... heh. 2-3 drinks a day, weekend drinks usually a little larger.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 09, 2025 12:49 PM (vbXSk)

80 "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" - the movie:

https://tinyurl.com/4f2djs7h

*shakes head at the stupidity of the common man*

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

81 If NY spirals down the toilet in a couple years it just might be fun to watch.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 12:49 PM (+qU29)

82 Way to go Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - low tax dino at November 09, 2025 12:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

83 It isnt day drinking if you wait till after noon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 09, 2025 12:50 PM (6/NW0)

84 If NY spirals down the toilet in a couple years it just might be fun to watch.

Only if the containment wall and guard towers have been completed.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

85 It's snowing. We have snow flurries in early November. In Southern Indiana. Hubbymayhem is grumbling about..."fucking hate winter. And it's not even winter yet.". The man grew up in upstate NY, the Watertown/Carthage area. When his mom passed away that area was getting 3 feet of snow in 36 hours. Every flight leaving for north of NYC was getting cancelled. Our flight in to Syracuse was the last one in before they closed the airport. Hubbymayhem said, "we won't have any problems getting out of NY because the only thing they know how to do right is clear snow." He really hates snow in this area because people can't drive in snow around here (according to him).

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 09, 2025 12:51 PM (2J/Lj)

86 "Which is why communism always quickly becomes a repressive dictatorship, even if it doesn't start off that way. If productive and talented people are allowed to leave, the entire thing breaks down quite quickly.
But Mamdani isn't at a high enough level to impose the kinds of restrictions he needs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 12:13 PM (uWKK

"

It still blows my fucking mind CA is allowed to do an exit tax and basically rob people leaving the state.

Well, they were all warned to get the fuck out. I think I dodfed a bullet finally getting out of my shithole state, they have to be passing one soon also.

I have a bit of land back there. Property taxes are up about 60% in 3 years. I had a neighbor whose property taxes are well over 50k a year now.

Posted by: heya at November 09, 2025 12:51 PM (WysWL)

87 Dear New Yorkers

Please don't come to Texas until you've had the part SVV(scorpion venom vaccine).

This year alone over 100k Texans died from scorpion stings. Please protect yourself.

Also global warming has caused Texas summers to reach 200F or greater. You will need to buy special Texas tires to keep them from melting on the highway.

Keep in mind that although armadillos are cute they carry Turbo-Leprosy and are active year round.

For your own safety, please consider moving to Florida.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iJfKG)

88 60 When the Muzzies get control the rest of us will have to pay Jizzya
Posted by: no one at November 09, 2025 12:27 PM (W7XSX)
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NYC is pretty far down that path already and it will only get worse.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2025 12:35 PM (IBQGV)

This is my opinion too. ANd my question about Daevabad Trilogy also questions the need for literature to tout Islamic "values"

Posted by: night lifted at November 09, 2025 12:52 PM (/YboP)

89 Only if the containment wall and guard towers have been completed.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

John Carpenter was a prophet.

Hopefully not with the vampire movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:53 PM (Vow2E)

90 And unlike a century ago, there's no serious barriers to any NYC corporation moving to some other part of the country.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK

-

Our company legally (maildrop only, no physical presence) moved from NY to Nevada about 15 years ago. Even back then, Albany's bloated bureaucracy, regulations, and computer logic errors which placed liens on the corporate account, were rampant.

NV has been good for us ever since. Not a single hassle.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 12:53 PM (yS/3v)

91 The Bulwark has a sob story about how the Mexican neighborhoods in Chicago are ghost town. Get this, the restaurants are down 50% in revenue because those meanies at ICE are making illegals too scared to go out to dinner.

Lol. Oh no! Can’t have that. Quick, someone impeach Trump.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Vb3xW)

92

We had to pay an exit tax moving from one suburb of Chicago to another suburb.

I think the tax was a percentage of what you sold your house for.

Assholes

Posted by: four seasons at November 09, 2025 12:54 PM (3ek7K)

93
Lol. Oh no! Can’t have that. Quick, someone impeach Trump.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Vb3xW)

Mr. Sombrero has informed us when they take over the House it's the first order of business so we have that to look forward to...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

94 For your own safety, please consider moving to Florida.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iJfKG)

Florida has been employing their brilliant marketing campaign for years now, to try to keep the New Yakkers out:

Florida Man.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 12:55 PM (Vow2E)

95 I'm thankful we took an election off in California
Why is gas $4.99 per gallon?
I pay $0.68 per gallon in gas taxes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2025 12:57 PM (IC093)

96 They’ll never own up to their failings. It will be Trump's fault.

You can see that already. nYC has created no jobs this year. Miami has created 20k. Point this out on Reddit and the replies are all “yeah but who wants to live in Miami”? Or “those are just health care jobs bro for old people they don’t count”. It’s always something.

NYC could lose 1M jobs while the rest of the country gains 1M jobs and they’d still blame Trump.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:57 PM (Vb3xW)

97 Yes corporations in NYC pay both city and state corporate taxes. Mamdani is trying to raise the city corporate tax rate. If they d happens the combined tax rate would match or exceed the Federal corporate tax rate.

Posted by: Michael K at November 09, 2025 12:58 PM (H0at2)

98
Florida has been employing their brilliant marketing campaign for years now, to try to keep the New Yakkers out:

Florida Man.
Posted by: BurtTC

Gators, Iguanas and Pythons. Oh My!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 12:58 PM (pkeXY)

99 For your own safety, please consider moving to Florida."

Of course. Don't forget, lots of pickup trucks in TX, too.

And brisket.

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 12:58 PM (tubbA)

100 forWAR'd: the biggest Rug-Pull of the Century, coming to a city near you! While the perps will pick up the remains for pennies on the dollar.

And the unbearable crush of Taxes is the means to that End. It's not as if we're getting our Money's worth? or, in fact, it guarantees us a right to be left alone?

It Pits Man against other men until we exist no more, because Normal People are just too stoopid to realize the process -- people go in one end and meat comes out the other... and please, don't forget to VOTE!

They can change their mind, can you change your vote?

As the next canard gets rolled out, which side of history do you intend to be on? that is the only question Normal People need consider in the next 6 months.

WAR is only possible when the wealth of the Nation is held by it's leaders rather than rightfully held and used by it's citizens. A Free and Productive People have Absolutely Nothing to gain from war, and, in fact, a great deal to lose...

Hacking drones (and tesla's, giving a new meaning to WarDriving), and other cyber exploits will transform Normal People, both the willing (viz. LIBs), unwilling, and the unknowing into terrible exploiters/exploits.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 09, 2025 12:59 PM (q5MUR)

101 Why is gas $4.99 per gallon?
I pay $0.68 per gallon in gas taxes

—-

Gas tax is not the reason. Even at $0 gas tax California is $1+ higher than the national average.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:59 PM (Vb3xW)

102 Damn chainsaw stealing bears!

https://is.gd/webtA4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)

103 I’m 100% in the give no fucks let it burn camp. NYC wants this. Have at it. Same with Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and the rest.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:00 PM (Vb3xW)

104
NYC could lose 1M jobs while the rest of the country gains 1M jobs and they’d still blame Trump.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:57 PM (Vb3xW)

I was hoping that Omar and Mamdani would be deported. They are both ummah loyal, let them go home where their "islamic values" are shared.

Posted by: night lifted at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (/YboP)

105 I hope our new mayor is successful and able to take the wealth from the robber barons and Wall Street bankers who suck the life blood out of the honest sweat of the oppressed working class!

Posted by: democrat goblin, New York City at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (R/m4+)

106
Gas tax is not the reason. Even at $0 gas tax California is $1+ higher than the national average.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 12:59 PM (Vb3xW)

I paid $4. 29 today at Costco.... Gas here is ridiculous....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)

107 I keep Telling you all to follow DataRepublican on X.

The enemies are within the gates. So many of them!

https://tinyurl.com/42mzpj5u

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (yS/3v)

108 Why is gas $4.99 per gallon?
I pay $0.68 per gallon in gas taxes

PA laughs at this rate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (LjSYW)

109 I’m late but here’s an observation… I moved from California to deep red Texas a few years ago and one thing that surprised me: Texas has sneaky high property taxes. Extremely annoying… and they keep wanting more every year. The appraisal value of the house gets adjusted upward every year and the appeal process is a complete and total joke

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (xT8gx)

110 $2.49 this AM...

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (tubbA)

111 103 I’m 100% in the give no fucks let it burn camp. NYC wants this. Have at it. Same with Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and the rest.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Did I miss your NFL rant of the day yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 09, 2025 01:02 PM (mT+6a)

112 Washington's constitution specifically prohibits a state income tax, and voters have repeatedly rejected efforts to amend that away, but the stranglehold of the Democrat dominated legislature and an all-liberal state Supreme Court continues.

A capital gains tax on high-value transactions was passed, and later upheld by the Court despite the constitution, disingenuously calling it an excise tax on a transaction, and not a direct tax on the gain (income). [spit]

And now the Dems are planning to impose a regular old income tax on incomes over $1 million. Over the years there have been quite a number of efforts to get the electorate to amend the constitution to allow taxing incomes, but these efforts have all failed by wide margins. If this gets through, it won't be long before the measure will drop to, oh say, $50,000?

Posted by: Fritz at November 09, 2025 01:02 PM (k3OpT)

113 Damn chainsaw stealing bears!

https://is.gd/webtA4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Hilarious - because it's not my chainsaw.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 01:02 PM (LVaYG)

114 Communism's failings are always due to Others, never the Communists

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 01:02 PM (+qU29)

115 Of course. Don't forget, lots of pickup trucks in TX, too.

And brisket.
Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 12:58 PM (tubbA)

I like brisket! And I have a pickup.

Unfortunately though, my ex lives in Texas.

You'll have to mail me the brisket.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Vow2E)

116
Damn chainsaw stealing bears!

https://is.gd/webtA4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

He's going to sell it to a beaver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (pkeXY)

117 109 I’m late but here’s an observation… I moved from California to deep red Texas a few years ago and one thing that surprised me: Texas has sneaky high property taxes. Extremely annoying… and they keep wanting more every year. The appraisal value of the house gets adjusted upward every year and the appeal process is a complete and total joke
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (xT8gx)

TX has no income tax.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Vb3xW)

118 Texas has sneaky high property taxes."

Depends on the county. Mont county is quite easy to appeal, plus exemptions (yeah, shouldn't need them, but)

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (tubbA)

119 I keep Telling you all to follow DataRepublican on X.

The enemies are within the gates. So many of them!

https://tinyurl.com/42mzpj5u

But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

120 Time to give Coca Cola the Anheuser Busch treatment?

https://tinyurl.com/3k52umkj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (yS/3v)

121 I’m late but here’s an observation… I moved from California to deep red Texas a few years ago and one thing that surprised me: Texas has sneaky high property taxes. Extremely annoying… and they keep wanting more every year. The appraisal value of the house gets adjusted upward every year and the appeal process is a complete and total joke
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:01 PM (xT8gx)

No income tax though, right?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 01:04 PM (Vow2E)

122
But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

Explains why Obama was meeting in London with Starmer...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

123 $2.59 for reg. unl. In SC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 09, 2025 01:05 PM (LjSYW)

124 now the Dems are planning to impose a regular old income tax on incomes over $1 million. Over the years there have been quite a number of efforts to get the electorate to amend the constitution to allow taxing incomes, but these efforts have all failed by wide margins. If this gets through, it won't be long before the measure will drop to, oh say, $50,000?
Posted by: Fritz

Saving democracy by ignoring the constitution.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:05 PM (Vb3xW)

125 Warning in advance.

Anyone who makes a Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald joke tomorrow will have all increments frozen and all franking privileges rescinded.

Posted by: Dept. of Compliance at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (oftw2)

126 The *point* of leftwing politics is to take as much money from the productive class as possible so none of this is a surprise. Its the modern version of a barbarian raid.

But the funny part will be that Zoey Bin Laden will only get a fraction of this money as left leaning rich people and corps leave and, even more amusing, very little of it will filter down to Karen McAWFL or the FSA

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

127 And Garbage Disposal should be free in Minnesota. Lots of old strip mines that can be filled with plastic and cardboard. Just leveling up the state.
Posted by: Public Nuisance at November 09, 2025 12:24 PM (oftw2)

Plastic, and cardboard, and old tires are high-quality fuels. Use them to fuel electrical generation. Throwing them in a hole in the ground is as insane as burning hundred dollar bills.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (npFr7)

128 President Trump, don't look. Just do it:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfz83kw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (yS/3v)

129 West Virginia on the march!

West Virginia legislation would invite 30 neighboring counties in Virginia and Maryland to switch states

https://is.gd/CfrZhL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

130 If this gets through, it won't be long before the measure will drop to, oh say, $50,000?"

Everyone will have to participate at some point, Tavarish!

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:06 PM (tubbA)

131 Still having issues accessing the site with firefox - chrome works fine.

Its when I access comments that the page won't load

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

132 Any legislator in favor of more taxes is evil. We're being taxed too much as it is. That's my money, cocksucker!

If you need more filthy lucre to subsidize your lavish lifestyles, get a second job!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 09, 2025 01:07 PM (uM32G)

133 Time to give Coca Cola the Anheuser Busch treatment?
https://tinyurl.com/3k52umkj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (yS/3v)

Me and My RC, what's good enough for other folks ain't good enough for me.

Posted by: RC Cola at November 09, 2025 01:07 PM (R/m4+)

134 President Trump, don't look. Just do it:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfz83kw

Remember a few years ago when the Feds arrested a woman for being involved in RKBA here in the US?

How is this any different? Don't deport this guy, give him a LONG prison sentence for election interference

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

135 West Virginia legislation would invite 30 neighboring counties in Virginia and Maryland to switch states"

They win two sportsball games, and instead of burning couches, this?

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:08 PM (tubbA)

136 I’ve lived in several states. Some red some blue some purple. At the end of the day they all steal from you. The difference is how. Some like TX have high property tax but no income tax. Some have it the other way around, low property but high income tax. Or sales tax is 10%.or car registration is $1200. In the end the amount they steal from you is the same. Just the methods change.

Other than the extremes like Cali or Illinois, they’re all about the same.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:08 PM (Vb3xW)

137 TX has no income tax.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Vb3xW)

I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes… it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot. Also annoying: if you appeal an increased appraisal value they’re more likely to bump it UP than down. The states gonna get its pound of flesh no matter where you are

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (xT8gx)

138 Time to give Coca Cola the Anheuser Busch treatment?
https://tinyurl.com/3k52umkj

Globo-corps have been discriminating against straight, white, Christian men for 20 years now...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

139 I'm so glad everything worked out for you
Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

Thank you so much.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (Sco7b)

140 TX has no income tax.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Vb3xW)

I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes

—-

Well yeah the money has to come from somewhere. See my post 136. In the end it’s the same thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:12 PM (Vb3xW)

141 I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes… it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot. Also annoying: if you appeal an increased appraisal value they’re more likely to bump it UP than down. The states gonna get its pound of flesh no matter where you are
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (xT8gx)

The rest of us got a glimpse of Texas' state government during the Paxton impeachment nonsense.

We were not impressed.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 01:12 PM (Vow2E)

142 And some people say violence is not the answer!

Florida man arrested after police say he fired shots when he got into an argument about how many eggs a chicken could lay

https://is.gd/kpNhBO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:12 PM (L/fGl)

143
President Trump, don't look. Just do it:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfz83kw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Jesse Watters?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2025 01:12 PM (pkeXY)

144 President Trump, don't look. Just do it:

https://tinyurl.com/ycfz83kw

Remember a few years ago when the Feds arrested a woman for being involved in RKBA here in the US?

How is this any different? Don't deport this guy, give him a LONG prison sentence for election interference

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:08 PM (sKqQm)
-

I'm not fussy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:12 PM (yS/3v)

145 it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot."

Travis County or DFW?

Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:13 PM (tubbA)

146 I've come around to a pretty strongly libertarian view on taxes. It really is mostly theft.

Yes some of the money is useful but that is the first cut and the last the government spends on.

I'd like to see a state, or at least a locality, experiment with a donation based system. NO taxes, but every year they publish how much each person donated and their income.

If things need to have money spent on them they will. But yes, most spending would dry up...which is fine because 90%+ is wasted anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

147 Travis County or DFW?
Posted by: man at November 09, 2025 01:13 PM (tubbA)

You called it… DFW

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:14 PM (xT8gx)

148
Florida man arrested after police say he fired shots when he got into an argument about how many eggs a chicken could lay

I can lay fifty eggs.

Posted by: Cool Hand Chicken at November 09, 2025 01:15 PM (pkeXY)

149 I don’t mind paying some taxes. You need roads and police and all that. What I hate is that people who use the most services pay the least taxes. By far.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:15 PM (Vb3xW)

150 If things need to have money spent on them they will. But yes, most spending would dry up...which is fine because 90%+ is wasted anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

it would be nice to see politicians as bell ringers around this time of year.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 09, 2025 01:15 PM (Vow2E)

151 Red states need to implement an entry tax for anyone fleeing a blue shithole. Make it painful. And, if these "refugees" can quit being assholes for about 10 years, they'll get a refund on that entry tax.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 09, 2025 01:15 PM (NwnyJ)

152 They pegged a 2% annual increase onto it. Geometrically, this math is not a friend.

2% compounded will double in 30 years or so.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2025 01:16 PM (gbOdA)

153 Time to give Coca Cola the Anheuser Busch treatment?
https://tinyurl.com/3k52umkj

Globo-corps have been discriminating against straight, white, Christian men for 20 years now...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)
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https://tinyurl.com/4p4ad7u2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:16 PM (yS/3v)

154 I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes… it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (xT8gx)

Jersey says hold my beer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:17 PM (snZF9)

155 I don’t mind paying some taxes. You need roads and police and all that. What I hate is that people who use the most services pay the least taxes. By far.

I'll give you an example of how this works.

A town near me, like many, has had increased de facto property taxes because property values are going up.

On top of that the state gave them "emergency" COVID funds.

They used these funds to hire bureaucrats. The roads suck, the school suck, and on and on.

When the state revoked the "emergency" COVID funds the town said they were going to have to fire teachers and close schools. Townspeople noted they could just lay off the new "sustainability engineer" or any of the rest and the town was adamant.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:17 PM (sKqQm)

156 Property is the thief in the night.
Work you ass off, pay the house mortgage off, and keep the repairs up and you and you Big Govt still own you forever.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2025 01:17 PM (gbOdA)

157 How is this any different? Don't deport this guy, give him a LONG prison sentence for election interference
Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

Vlad Tepes, he knew de wey.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:18 PM (npFr7)

158 Property is the thief in the night.
Work you ass off, pay the house mortgage off, and keep the repairs up and you and you Big Govt still own you forever.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 09, 2025 01:17 PM (gbOdA)

Yup, my house is paid off. Property taxes are $788 a month.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)

159 When the Muzzies get control the rest of us will have to pay Jizzya
Posted by: no one
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I'll pay it in copper.. plated lead.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 09, 2025 01:22 PM (C+UIq)

160 I have an elderly relative who lives in California and has owned and lived in the same house in LA County since 1969… because of prop 13 back in 1978 his property taxes are almost negligible. I’ll be curious to see when this gentleman passes (he’s near 90) what the property taxes will be on the property for those who inherit… and what estate taxes will be. I suspect it’ll be outrageous because the house now is worth almost $2M (if you believe Zillow)…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:23 PM (xT8gx)

161 The Colorado stuff is garbage not only because of the increased taxes themselves but because they included language exempting the revenue from our taxpayers bill of rights (TABOR) a relic from our saner days which is hanging on by its fingernails.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at November 09, 2025 01:23 PM (3VrWp)

162 All of the little American citizens are little American Indians and they're being jacked on their property, not with guns, but taxes.

If you resist, you'll see the guns come out.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 09, 2025 01:24 PM (uM32G)

163 Yup, my house is paid off. Property taxes are $788 a month.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)

That's brutal. My house here in Canada, on three acres with outbuildings, is about 1800 Loonies per year; say about 1300 USD.

And the house in Apache Junction is about 1700 USD, per year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:24 PM (npFr7)

164
MN State MSW Tax Rates:

Residential: $9.75

Commercial: $17

AWFL berating her harried husband: "Who put all the garbage in our trash bins!???!?!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 09, 2025 01:26 PM (y9nCu)

165 Yup, my house is paid off. Property taxes are $788 a month.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:20 PM (snZF9)
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Yuck! My house is paid off too. Taxes about $350 per month. 4k sq feet.

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 01:26 PM (LVaYG)

166 “Unprovoked” Stabbing in Birmingham, England City Centre Leaves Woman in Critical Condition

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The multiculturals got her!

The woman, said to be in her 30s, was stabbed in the neck on Smallbrook Queensway in the city centre of multicultural Birmingham at around 9 pm local time on Friday.
. . . .
The West Midlands Police has arrested a man in his 20s who was close to the scene of the crime. No details about the suspect’s identity or motive have been made public at the time of this reporting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

167 I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes… it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (xT8gx)

Jersey says hold my beer.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 09, 2025 01:17 PM

MA says hold ours, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2025 01:29 PM (9iRTe)

168 The answer? They don't! We're taxed to keep us in line, not because their magic printing press can't just be turned on to magically fund whatever they want.

Printing more money dilutes the value of existing money the same as creating more stocks shares does.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 09, 2025 01:30 PM (vzF5F)

169 in the city centre of multicultural Birmingham
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These authors and their "safe word modifiers." Always eager to please some perceived group/audience. Thinking they're "socially aware."

Posted by: scampydog at November 09, 2025 01:30 PM (LVaYG)

170 Read one of the last acts of the Republicans did in Leftifornia was somehow make property taxes freeze at much lower than most states.

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 01:32 PM (+qU29)

171 Meanwhile, in Colorado . . .

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife is investigating a reported moose attack west of Jamestown in Boulder County around 1 p.m. Wednesday. A woman was walking her dog off-leash near her home when a young bull moose knocked her to the ground, stomping her multiple times. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital with head and back injuries.

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I didn't even know there were lesbian moose!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:32 PM (L/fGl)

172 Since you mentioned garbage, I am happy to be far away from the Waste Connections monopoly. The town has a contract with a private company and you pay the town for garbage collection. If I need to get rid of a bag of cardboard, there's no additional charge. And they did a cleanup week, where they would pick up whatever as part of the regular pickup.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 09, 2025 01:32 PM (znHU2)

173 Florida man arrested after police say he fired shots when he got into an argument about how many eggs a chicken could lay
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Same as it ever was. The impetus of all violence comes down to getting laid.

Posted by: mikeski at November 09, 2025 01:33 PM (nhCoE)

174 And the house in Apache Junction is about 1700 USD, per year.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:24 PM (npFr7)

Considering how cold Alberta is, when do people put up Christmas lights? First warm day?

I'm outside of Detroit and usually it's November 1st. It's lightly snowing but these are going up today.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

175 I didn't even know there were lesbian moose!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:32 PM (L/fGl)
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Don't be fooled.

Transmoose.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2025 01:34 PM (yS/3v)

176 Printing more money dilutes the value of existing money the same as creating more stocks shares does.

Almost all money the government spends comes from either taxes or an increase in inflation.

There are some "fees" as well on things like mineral rights but those are rather minor sources of income.

So, if spending goes up without a tax increase the value of our dollars will be reduced - because the value the government is spending has to come from somewhere...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 09, 2025 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

177 Nom! Nom! Nom!

Astronomers Find Strong Evidence That Aging Stars Like the Sun May Consume Nearby Planets

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

178 Never challenge a moose.

They'll stomp a mudhole in you faster than you can say, "Hey, Rocky; watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 09, 2025 01:38 PM (uM32G)

179 TX has no income tax.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 09, 2025 01:03 PM (Vb3xW)

I’m well aware of course but the fact remains Texas is rapacious with property taxes… it’s worse than California and that’s saying a lot. Also annoying: if you appeal an increased appraisal value they’re more likely to bump it UP than down. The states gonna get its pound of flesh no matter where you are
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2025 01:09 PM (xT8gx)

Eh, our property taxes have consistently gone down over the last couple of years thanks to Abbott and the Reps changing the laws.

They're half of what they were a few years ago.

I don't know what you're doing with your property taxes but what ever it is, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 09, 2025 01:39 PM (iJfKG)

180 The West Midlands Police has arrested a man in his 20s who was close to the scene of the crime. No details about the suspect’s identity or motive have been made public at the time of this reporting.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 09, 2025 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

And despite the rapes, stabbings and assault, Starmer keeps bring them in. I suspect he pays Macaroon to send them.

Posted by: night lifted at November 09, 2025 01:39 PM (/YboP)

181 Considering how cold Alberta is, when do people put up Christmas lights? First warm day?

I'm outside of Detroit and usually it's November 1st. It's lightly snowing but these are going up today.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

I don't put any up here. Right now, it is exactly 32 degrees, and the Sun is wanly shining. And it looks like a Chinook arch may be building in the West.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:39 PM (npFr7)

182 Taxes - pretty simple really. Those who vote for tax increases either a) can afford the tax increases, so don't care and can virtue signal, or b) don't pay taxes anyway, so also don't care, or more cynically want to stick it to those who do pay.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 09, 2025 01:44 PM (MZ+PY)

183 Considering how cold Alberta is, when do people put up Christmas lights? First warm day?

I'm outside of Detroit and usually it's November 1st. It's lightly snowing but these are going up today.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Sco7b)

Plenty of people put the string lights on their houses and in their trees (especially the tall pine trees) when the weather is good and just leave them there all year. Otherwise, keep an eye on the forecast and if it looks like things are going to tank in October/November and not recover anytime soon, get out there and get it over with instead of waiting till late November or early December and regretting it. The stuff that sits in the yard can wait until it's about time to turn them on for the year.

Posted by: Vendette at November 09, 2025 01:44 PM (3G4Lw)

184 For the first time in years I flipped on an NFL game, and - news flash - the Cleveland Browns are terrible in nearly all respects, excepting their pass defense. What a great example of a waste of tax money it would be to build this absolutely foul team a new stadium.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 09, 2025 01:45 PM (ACYIZ)

185 You don't want to get into a accident with a moose, they rarely have insurance coverage

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2025 01:46 PM (+qU29)

186 Does California charge an exit tax on renters who leave California, or only homeowners? If the latter, perhaps the affected homeowners could sue California on the grounds of disparate impact?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 09, 2025 01:47 PM (npFr7)

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