What a bunch of slimeballs

[Willy]

Residents of Mason County Eastern made the sleazy decision to raise the taxes of their part time neighbors and did not raise their own taxes to pay for the services they use on a daily basis. Dipping into non homestead residents pockets to rob them so they themselves would not have to pay their fair share. This has always been a pet peave of mine. What a bunch of cowards.

 

http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news/57537-may-3-election-results

[AQUAMAN]

It should be pretty clear to any of us watching the school boards and their expenditures in recent years and priorities of where and how much to spend, that the root of the problem is theirs, not the taxpayers. They are the ones spending like drunken sailors, pardon the pun, and have to pull in this extravagant behavior in allotting funds to various projects/payrolls that are too expensive and wasteful. But, as many of us admit, they would rather put the blame on us, and pit one against the other, typical liberal agenda, divide and conquer. Instead, the homesteaders/non-homesteaders should have a face down with these greedy boards in person at their meetings, and put pressure on them to achieve a more conservative spending approach to all their wastes. Or dump them in the next elections in favor of others that have that same notion.

[masonco]

Angie

 

Many of those who have 2 homes in this area have two homes cause no one will buy the 2nd one. Hasn't anyone noticed that those who do come up here now spend less locally? They bring all their supplies from home and spend their weekends here without even buying gas while here.

 

Raising their taxes only will serve to reduce their spending locally at places like restaurants, etc.

 

Again I repeat...Many of those who have 2nd homes here will probably end up saying the increased taxes are not worth it and will just let their property go into foreclosure due to non payment of taxes. Or has no one noticed the increased properties being seized for non payment of property taxes. Most of those are 2nd homes.

[XLFD]

I know of an older couple who have a place in Alabama and a place in Victory Township, their main residence for many years.  Both are effectively double-wides.  They report, as a non-homesteader in Alabama with two acres on an improved road, they pay less than $20 per year for property taxes.  As a homesteader here with about the same amount of land on a private, unimproved road they pay hundreds in property taxes. 

I remember Bob Neal, Ludington entrepreneur, saying the same about the property taxes on his house in Colorado compared to his condo in Ludington (with bigger numbers, of course).

Oppressive taxes like this is one way how our local governments are negatively affecting the property values of our homes, and making it easier for our long term citizens to move elsewhere while their property here goes into foreclosure, snatched up by banks and 'opportunistic vultures' often directly associated with the cause of the problems. 

Not to say this happened at 201 N Washington, LOL.