North Dakota voters to decide on abolishing property tax By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY Updated 9h 36m ago
North Dakota voters will decide Tuesday on the ultimate tax revolt: abolishing the property tax altogether. A citizen-led petition drive has put the daring, all-or-nothing proposal before the voters in a state flush with tax revenue, jobs and prosperity generated by an oil boom.
If the property tax is eliminated, it would be the first time since 1980 — when oil-rich Alaska got rid of its income tax — that a state has discontinued a major tax, reports the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan research group. North Dakota would become the only state not to have a property tax, a levy the state has had since before it joined the union in 1889............................>>>>.........................>>>>.....................http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-11/north-dakota-property-tax/55533784/1
When you consider that N Dakota is #6 on the list of "welfare states" it makes it easy for them to drop their property taxes, because the rest of US Taxpayers are paying their share.
N Dakota gets $1.64 of US tax dollars for every dollar they pay in taxes.
By comparison... NY state gets back $.79 for every dollar paid to the Federal govt.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
N.D. voters reject proposal to abolish local property taxes
North Dakota voters on Tuesday resoundingly defeated a proposal that would have made the state the first in the nation to abolish local property taxes.
Unofficial returns showed voters rejecting the constitutional amendment by well over 70%.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
ND did the right thing by voting it down. The state had no plans to make up the difference in lost revenue.
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they alreasdy spend less than most states. I have a friend there with a 2100 sf ranch house who pays $400 a year in property taxes. His house is worth about 200k.
Do the math. See??? ...you are getting reamed.
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they alreasdy spend less than most states. I have a friend there with a 2100 sf ranch house who pays $400 a year in property taxes. His house is worth about 200k.
Do the math. See??? ...you are getting reamed.
Yes, but he doesn't get to say he's a resident of The Empire State.
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