With a runup in home values sparking higher property taxes for many Georgia homeowners, there is a groundswell among state lawmakers in this election year to provide relief.
Georgia’s Senate Finance Committee plans a hearing on Monday on a bill limiting increases in a home’s value, as assessed for property tax purposes, to 3% per year. The limit would last as long as the owner maintained a homestead exemption. Voters would have to approve the plan in a November referendum.
Meanwhile, Republican House Speaker Jon Burns of Newington proposes doubling the state’s homestead tax exemption, a measure likely to cut tax bills by nearly $100 million statewide.
“Poverty cult is when you suggest people who own a literal million dollars worth of property should pay taxes that equate to less than the most bottom-of-the-barrel studio apartment”
Critical support for rugged individualism, huh?
“Join the rest of us” is, in fact, a poverty cult. You’re demanding that people who have been priced out of their homes be thrown to the wolves like we have been. I don’t want more people to be victimized by landlords. The goal isn’t to drag lucky people into the mud with the rest of us and fight over scraps. The goal is to target the people who are causing the problem and remove them from society.
That’s landlords and real estate investors. They’re the ones driving up costs and they’re the ones exploiting people without property. A home owner losing their home because prices rose in their area due to gentrification is just the crabs dragging them back into the bucket.
I still love that you’re calling a price far, far below rent for a studio apartment for a million dollar home as some kind of cruelty to the proletariat. But I guess ‘join the rest of us’ is a scary thought to middle class tankie larpers, who fear that they might not be ‘more equal’ than others someday.
Okay. They don’t have to be. A home half that price would have under half of that property tax. A home a quarter of that value would have no property tax. Sorry that you believe in the untaxed and unlimited accumulation of value by market forces without input of labor?
I live in a trailer in the middle of nowhere and operate a welding press, fuck off.
Have you not been paying attention to the housing market? Due to real estate speculation they’re not going to find cheaper housing, at least not within a reasonable commute distance to the jobs these people have. So if they’re forced to suffer like the rest of us then they’re uprooting their lives, destroying communities, forcing them down the social ladder, and making them even more dependent on the car-based transportation infrastructure with all the personal and social costs that entails.
I believe in attacking the problem from the other end, by attacking investors and landlords. The problem isn’t that they have personal property, the problem is that the value of that property is going up. Fix that, and then no one gets priced out of their homes or accumulates wealth.