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https://twitter.com/jaspscherer/status/1679161862334676995 Got some bad news for you there Roland
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i say swears online posted:if property taxes are regressive, why does lowering them benefit the wealthy Does lowering sales tax benefit the wealthy? Lowering property taxes benefits the wealthy because lowering taxes on owned land will, somehow, benefit landowners. Property taxes in a no-income state are basically the only tax that rich people have to pay that's even a little bit commensurate with their wealth. And it's very minimally commensurate with their wealth. jokes fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jul 12, 2023 |
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jokes posted:Property tax is a regressive tax and should be abolished in favor of a wealth tax Edit: beaten to death. Here is a meme from the Texas leg staffer meme account. https://twitter.com/3SeveralDays/status/1679172728400625681
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Property tax relief seems like more of a rural/older Texan benefit because Millennials/Gen Z in cities have no hope of owning property. Today my MIL was like "you all should wait until you own a house to buy a bigger bed" and I was like "that's not going to happen for at least another two decades". https://twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1678892348535631873?s=20
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Hey. There could always be another mega huge house price crash.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Property tax relief seems like more of a rural/older Texan benefit because Millennials/Gen Z in cities have no hope of owning property. new millennial hotspot - Smithville, TX.
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Texans are more outraged at Democrat tax and spending Roland
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Why don't you just ask your parents to buy you the house like this Texas Monthly article about young oil patch entrepreneurs with their rags to riches story of growing up in Highland Park and having their dad's friend invest $70 million in their start-up when they were 28. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/permian-resources-oil-midland-young-ceos/
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Sab0921 posted:new millennial hotspot - Smithville, TX. literally true. a friend's sister moved out there and my friend recently spent a night in their "downtown" and found it charming https://frontroomwinebar.com/ I'd have a good time here
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That place is great. I only went once, when I lived in Bastrop, but the owner was real friendly and the atmosphere was cool.
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zoux posted:Hey. There could always be another mega huge house price crash. This is a joke right because all that’s going to happen is all cash offers buying all the cheaper houses.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/mqsullivan/status/1674863525817114646?s=46&t=A_iY-gupVf13dcIJPetZhQ I mean if living an hour from the Island is "beachfront" property then sure.
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Jiro posted:I mean if living an hour from the Island is "beachfront" property then sure. It will be beachfront soon enough. You're basically just an early gentrifier of the new trendy beachfront neighborhood 1-2 decades from now.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/mqsullivan/status/1674863525817114646?s=46&t=A_iY-gupVf13dcIJPetZhQ Tell that to the red state ppl in Florida who can't get insurance. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/farmers-insurance-florida/index.html poo poo's only going to get worse.
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i say swears online posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5305-Hillcrest-Dr-Waco-TX-76710/59765298_zpid/ 1 to 5 million basically overnight. Lol Wouldn't mind if mine 5x'd. I'd be able to retire.
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lol that's because that's when the house was built. still hideous though
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i say swears online posted:https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5305-Hillcrest-Dr-Waco-TX-76710/59765298_zpid/ JFC I saw Hillcrest and assumed the street I lived near in Dallas. It’s loving Waco? I should be able to buy the CITY of Waco for 5 mil.
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Doom Rooster posted:JFC I saw Hillcrest and assumed the street I lived near in Dallas. It’s loving Waco? I should be able to buy the CITY of Waco for 5 mil. still can, except for this house
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Jake Gittes posted:Tell that to the red state ppl in Florida who can't get insurance. That's mostly because Florida is stuffed to the brim with scammers. It is run by scammers, for scammers. Florida has a law that says that if you sue the insurance company and win they pay your legal fees, but if you sue and lose you don't pay the insurance company's costs. It also has a law which allows owners to delegate the right to file a claim to the contractor doing the work. So a sketchy rear end roofer can go about pressuring/tricking homeowners into signing over the right to file a claim with the promise of "a free new roof!" They then file the claim for a full replacement at a rather uncompetitive price, often damaging the roof themselves to fake storm damage. When the insurance company pushes back the roofer has a law firm scammer buddy that starts the process of during the insurance company. The insurance company knows that there is a real risk that they will lose the lawsuit because people think big insurance companies are evil money hoarders who don't pay out when they should and also knows that if that happens they will also end up paying for exorbitantly inflated legal fees run up by the lawyer who is in on the scam. So the insurance company pays out the claim and raises rates next year to keep their loss ratio consistent. If this were an isolated scenario that would be one thing, but with background level of scammers in the state and regular storms providing cover stories for the fake damage the Florida roofing industry is now essentially made up entirely of those shady people who show up after a hailstorm. Florida is responsible for something like 80% of all insurance lawsuits nationwide. The result is insurance in Florida is now priced with the assumption that every house will have its roof replaced within the next few years at a non-competitive price. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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halokiller posted:the funniest is seeing homes going for 300k+ in pasadena and deer park - worth being a homeowner even if it means smelling like gasoline and getting cancer by age 30 My grandpa moved to Pasadena to work at the plants right after WW2 and lived there his entire life. He’s still ticking at 97. I think the stink air mutated him.
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the air put a protective coating of benzene over all his internal components
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George H.W. oval office posted:My grandpa moved to Pasadena to work at the plants right after WW2 and lived there his entire life. He’s still ticking at 97. I think the stink air mutated him. 
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My dad got a rare brain tumor which is separate from the metastatic secondary/primary unknown cancer that is currently killing him. How many people get two completely different cancers in seven years? I know my mom blames, and I've suspected, that it has to do with the superfund site of a swamp down there. Cancer does not run in my family. I don't think this single case is probative, of course, but I'll go to my grave believing that it was the environmental pollutants that caused my dad's cancers.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/12/texas-judge-gay-weddings-supreme-court/ The Supreme Court was already the most crooked poo poo - based on no actual harms that had happened. What is always irritating is, as I often bring up, people will both act like you're elitist if you won't move out of the big cities in Texas and shrug this stuff off with "well why would you want service from someone who doesn't want to serve you?" for stuff that isn't always optional. There's a more likely chance that this judge won't get anywhere because they're operating in a governmental capacity, but I don't really trust the Texas Supreme Court either. zoux posted:My dad got a rare brain tumor which is separate from the metastatic secondary/primary unknown cancer that is currently killing him. How many people get two completely different cancers in seven years? I know my mom blames, and I've suspected, that it has to do with the superfund site of a swamp down there. Cancer does not run in my family. I don't think this single case is probative, of course, but I'll go to my grave believing that it was the environmental pollutants that caused my dad's cancers. I'm really sorry your family is going through this. Cancer can just come at you with age, but I also believe it was probably environment.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/12/texas-judge-gay-weddings-supreme-court/ The correct take from SCOTX would be to say "You have a choice - either resign your position or officiate weddings of same sex couples." I have a feeling that's not what we'll get.
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I'm a smol land owner - I have no incentive to ever sell because my mortgage interest rate is 3.25%. The market can crash or my $180k house can stay valued at around $350k forever - it makes no difference to me. Property tax "relief" means I can vaguely think about getting a shed or pooling money with some buddies to get a cabin outside Fort Davis or something... eventually.
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zoux posted:MS 13 like Welcome back, neolib
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