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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 421690" data-attributes="member: 389">I think the premise here is that those opposed to the current system are of the belief that that they could someday hunker down on their property and avoid helping to pay for the government services available to them in the form of road maintenance, law enforcement, fire dept protection, etc, etc.&nbsp; Since that's never going to happen, the hidden agenda is to simply reshuffle who is paying for those services in the hope that they will end up paying less out of their own pocket while still receiving all the same services they are currently entitled to based on where they chose to live (very much a socialistic democrat position, by the way).I also suspect many of those who support the removal of property taxes and figuratively telling the legislature to &quot;figure it out&quot;, will be the same ones complaining on here about how it gets figured out in the coming years. We all have the current option to live in a low property tax area of a city/township/county, that is our leverage.&nbsp; I can move less than 6 miles away and live in an area with 2-4 times the net property tax on something of similar value to my current home.&nbsp; I choose to not do so.&nbsp; If this passes, I suspect my overall tax bill is going to go up as we all get lumped together under another form of taxation.&nbsp; Yet, I will receive no extra services (no street lights, curbs, city water and sanitation, etc, etc).This is a very bad deal for anyone who has chosen to not live in an urban area.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 421690, member: 389"] I think the premise here is that those opposed to the current system are of the belief that that they could someday hunker down on their property and avoid helping to pay for the government services available to them in the form of road maintenance, law enforcement, fire dept protection, etc, etc. Since that's never going to happen, the hidden agenda is to simply reshuffle who is paying for those services in the hope that they will end up paying less out of their own pocket while still receiving all the same services they are currently entitled to based on where they chose to live (very much a socialistic democrat position, by the way). I also suspect many of those who support the removal of property taxes and figuratively telling the legislature to "figure it out", will be the same ones complaining on here about how it gets figured out in the coming years. We all have the current option to live in a low property tax area of a city/township/county, that is our leverage. I can move less than 6 miles away and live in an area with 2-4 times the net property tax on something of similar value to my current home. I choose to not do so. If this passes, I suspect my overall tax bill is going to go up as we all get lumped together under another form of taxation. Yet, I will receive no extra services (no street lights, curbs, city water and sanitation, etc, etc). This is a very bad deal for anyone who has chosen to not live in an urban area. [/QUOTE]

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