$30 Property Taxes

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When can voters pass a $30 flat-fee property tax initiative?

-- No Mail (nomail@nomail.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

When there's an initiative and the majority votes for it.

Life is simple, so are the answers.

-- Paul Oss (jnaut@earthlink.net), December 31, 1999.


That would also likely require a constitutional amendment, and that can't be done by the initiative process. Life is not THAT simple.

-- dbvz (dbvz@wa.freei.net), December 31, 1999.

No mail,

Since a $30 flat fee property tax wouldn't even pay for fire protection, let alone all the other nice to have things like police, roads, prosecuting attorneys, courts, and jails, etc. NO thanks. I'll pass.

-- Marsha (acorn_nut@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.


Well, since I-695 supporters are so quick to point out exactly which services they were paying for but not benefiting from, it would make sense that this idea would meet with widespread approval. Why should people with no children pay to support schools? Make fire responses a fee-based service! Same for police. And 911. And on and on... Property taxes pay for a plethora of services that many homeowners never use. That makes the users of those services "leeches", doesn't it? You know, like the "leeches" that ride buses and ferries! Do I detect a bit of selective myopia here?

-- anonymous (anonymous@home.com), January 01, 2000.

Dumb idea, user fees for prosecuting attorneys? Jails? Court system? Can you be any more impractical?

-- Marsha (acorn_nut@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.


Marsha: It's the same logic as the I-695 argument: why should I pay for what I do not use? Do you think jails are more important than a functioning transportation system?

-- anonymous (anonymous@home.com), January 02, 2000.

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