• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    This specifically is literally a town of 800 still owing 6 million dollars after they spent their little coffers and their insurance paid out what it was going to pay. They are literally taxing the home owners exactly what it cost to pay the settlement I doubt that is happening all over the place.

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      8 days ago

      This particular situation is a little more extreme, but you’d be wrong. Homeowners are seeing their property taxes raised by criminal percentages nationwide. Thankfully most are fighting back.

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        8 days ago

        What you actually mean is that the housing market is hot dumping a bunch of unearned wealth on every asshole who bought a house in the last 50 years meaning that with the extra wealth you get to pay additional taxes.

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          8 days ago

          Fuck you for shitting on people who own a house to live in.

          Fuck you for shifting the blame away from corporate house flippers and other people who buy houses as investments instead of as a fucking place to live.

          Fuck you in general for implying that economically forcing people out of their homes because some rich fucks want them is the fault of the homeowners.

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            7 days ago

            Asking people to pay a share of their unearned wealth the same as all of us have to pay out of our earned wealth is totally shitting on them…

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      7 days ago

      Theirs a case for some form of malpractice on the part of that town

      their liability insurance paid $1 million

      wtf, for an entire town, including schools? This is no longer the nineteenth century. It’s not all that unusual for individuals to have that much liability insurance. It’s not even that expensive