Short I like what you say. SoI am for capping sales tax at 5% -- 1% for city/county 4% for state. I
Property tax Johnr already gave his 2 cents earlier ---- i think its a good wake up call to keep govt in check.
How about the sperm lights downtown? I can’t remember what they cost but I remember being…surprised.I am reading a lot and there seems to be a lot of SENSITIVITY. It's not good so close to Christmas please spread the LOVE and goodwill to all.
Oh and at some point in time there will have to be a correction in taxing of the citizenry. It can't go on like it is. GF has $80,000 pile of rocks on S 42nd St. supposed to be art.
boom nail on the head --- a person has to say to himself -- what have i gained from our state government. What was i missing and what do i have now that i didnt then? Road work but that is done alot with fed money.In 2011 the BND had a little over 4 billion in deposits and that has grown to a little over 8 billion in 2021,
Our current 2-year state budget is 17 billion and for 2009-2011 it was 7.7 billion. db
Exactly right Sir! Monies for the "kids" school. Most teachers are paid shit. It's the fat cats in the high administration lining their pockets, along with the waste you pointed all, gymnasiums , auditoriums and such. Its a proven fact, they keep wanting more money for schools and the children are less educated every year. Nothing but a tax money grab, and gullible people keep falling for it....Back a few years ago when we still lived in ND, I caught one of our legislator's and asked him about the State buying down the property tax dollars for the school if I remember correctly, (strokes mess with my memory).
He was telling me I should be happy the State is spending "their" monies to buy down our property tax. I told him the State has no monies, as it is all the citizens monies. He left rather quickly when I brought that up.
One thing that torques me about taxes, no matter where you live, all they have to do is say it is for the kids and the kids need it, bla bla bla and it often passes. We had an old square school house and we learned. Now they have to have the fancy buildings and how many gyms and auditoriums because we have to build it nicer than the next school district. Keeping up with the Joneses so to speak.
Some want to keep the tax because THEY DON'T PAY ANY PROPERTY TAX. They believe the state will then INCEREASE OTHER TAXES to make up for it and then they'll pay more.I am very pro limited government, so its hard for me to understand why someone would want to keep a tax when our government spends countless hours trying to figure how to waste all the money we give them. And yes, some taxes are need.
I could equate it to your boss coming to you and saying I think you deserve a 5% raise (insert what % you want for this example). You say back to him, absolutely not! I think you need that money more than I do. Keep in mind our government is not a small business, so please don't equate our government to a small business.
Have you ever given an ounce of thought to those of us that had to put up with the shit show the oil boom brought to the state but had no direct benefit from it? The oil boom resulted in higher prices on many things like property taxes, rent, land, houses, vehicles, equipment, the list goes on and on. The " select few you talk about " benefited greatly at the cost and misery of others.Because it was generally endorsed by the people that pay into it for the reasons it was originally setup, the future of this state and all of our kids who choose to stick around. The people that pay into it NEVER intended for you to get a fucking dime, that would change their support in a major way.
Matt Dillion would rank #1 in the list of serial killers.Like Gunsmoke. Current show, as with most, i have seen countless times. 11/57. Rancher said 12 Crow braves came and took his wife. But Chester Goode finds these flowers and the story goes on.
The one i really enjoy is this old guy was a pool shark. Beats a big shot in Dodge for a lot of monies. Big shot gets a ringer from Nebraska to get his monies back. Young couple he was traveling with, the kid bets against him so he loss on purpose. In the end the old guy gets the young lady. Great show. Just like playing darts.
Always bury the ones they kill in this show as soon as they were dead. db
What is the percentage of adults in ND that don't pay for where they live? I would think it would be less than 15%. But I could be wrong. As far as them raising other taxes.....if thats what they think is in the best interest for the people, they can go ahead and try. Thats why we have elections. But in the mean time, while they are trying to figure out a new tax or higher tax, we are not paying property tax.Some want to keep the tax because THEY DON'T PAY ANY PROPERTY TAX. They believe the state will then INCEREASE OTHER TAXES to make up for it and then they'll pay more.
So let me equate it to your example. Your boss comes to you and .your coworkers saying that some of you deserve a raise but he's not paying. For those that get the raise it will come out of their coworker's pay.