Half of Detroit property owners don't pay taxes | The Detroit News | detroitnews.comUncle Sam | 207775 hits | Feb 22 10:16 am | Posted by: commanderkai  Nearly half of the owners of Detroit's 305,000 properties failed to pay their tax bills last year, exacerbating a punishing cycle of declining revenues and diminished services for a city in a financial crisis, according to a Detroit News analysis of goverCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Nobody wants Detroit in the rest of the US except stupid California there twin. Does Canada wish to make a offer or would you like the US to give it to you free of charge including all of it trash. You cant have California, where selling that to Mexico soon.
In the condition Detroit is in, I wouldn't suggest Canada take it for free, much less pay for it. "Fixer upper" doesn't even scratch the surface.
Guess what? The poor don't pay enough taxes to keep a city running. And assessing the homes of poor people at over ten times the market value isn't going to help, either. I guess all of that "F*ck the Rich!" mentality really paid off in Detroit, didn't it?
One of the big problems the city had for a long time was that any property sold at a tax auction wasn't just sold for the value of the property. Oh no. Any buyer had to cough up all of the back taxes, too. Sometimes that meant a tax bill far in excess of the value of the property was due on sale.
Which meant that very few people bought these properties and now whole swaths of the city have been abandoned with few homes occupying once-crowded city blocks.
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Detroit is a fine example of why I oppose the politics of the left as being destructive of the human spirit and ultimately destructive of my country.
4% tax on double appraised value, which is 4x market value is flat out insane, I wouldn't pay it either.
I would have sent 4% of 35,000, and told the city to fuck off for the rest, especially
since the owner gets nothing for his money.
Reading the article, it's easy to see the whole system is broken.
4% tax on double appraised value, which is 4x market value is flat out insane, I wouldn't pay it either.
I would have sent 4% of 35,000, and told the city to fuck off for the rest, especially
since the owner gets nothing for his money.
That's an 8.75% annual property tax rate. I'd call it unreal but in California our Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome (Democrat - San Francisco) has said that 10% annually would be a 'fair' property tax rate for Californians.
That's why Texas is shopping California to take and bag and leave the Californian employee's behind. Texans don't want the Libola infection causing Detroit syndrome, thus block California Liberals unless there Right to work, not CBA. Unions where also a major force in Detroit's collapse and also soon California's and IL's.
The city has been run into the ground by one corrupt Democrat administration after another. For over fifty straight years the city has had one-party rule and they've driven out the middle class because they favored the left's favorite class: the poor.
Guess what? The poor don't pay enough taxes to keep a city running. And assessing the homes of poor people at over ten times the market value isn't going to help, either. I guess all of that "F*ck the Rich!" mentality really paid off in Detroit, didn't it?
One of the big problems the city had for a long time was that any property sold at a tax auction wasn't just sold for the value of the property. Oh no. Any buyer had to cough up all of the back taxes, too. Sometimes that meant a tax bill far in excess of the value of the property was due on sale.
Which meant that very few people bought these properties and now whole swaths of the city have been abandoned with few homes occupying once-crowded city blocks.
Detroit.JPG
Detroit is a fine example of why I oppose the politics of the left as being destructive of the human spirit and ultimately destructive of my country.
But but but..............their Mayor can dunk a basketball.
Hell, I watch Detroit TV so I can stare in utter amazement at the gong show that city has become. It's better than any soap opera.
Councillors going to jail, police sex scandas, a Mayor who's turning the lights off in the suburbs to make people move to the city centre ghetto, whole area's of the city in complete decay and all the while one of the most affluent areas in Michigan sits quietly in the middle of this chaos.
I'm sorry but when you turn 99% of a city into a micro welfare state you shouldn't be suprised when things like this happen.
The city has been run into the ground by one corrupt Democrat administration after another. For over fifty straight years the city has had one-party rule and they've driven out the middle class because they favored the left's favorite class: the poor.
Guess what? The poor don't pay enough taxes to keep a city running. And assessing the homes of poor people at over ten times the market value isn't going to help, either. I guess all of that "F*ck the Rich!" mentality really paid off in Detroit, didn't it?
One of the big problems the city had for a long time was that any property sold at a tax auction wasn't just sold for the value of the property. Oh no. Any buyer had to cough up all of the back taxes, too. Sometimes that meant a tax bill far in excess of the value of the property was due on sale.
Which meant that very few people bought these properties and now whole swaths of the city have been abandoned with few homes occupying once-crowded city blocks.
Detroit.JPG
Detroit is a fine example of why I oppose the politics of the left as being destructive of the human spirit and ultimately destructive of my country.
As they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. However I do feel the uber rich have foisted their share of the tax burden onto the shoulders of the middle class.....the real entrepreneurs and innovators (and the biggest consumers)....and the heaviest taxed segment of the population. People grossing between a low end of 60 and 250 a year are getting screwed by those above and below.
The city has been run into the ground by one corrupt Democrat administration after another. For over fifty straight years the city has had one-party rule and they've driven out the middle class because they favored the left's favorite class: the poor.
Really? It's those evil Demoncrats that drove out the middle class? They're all clustered in the suburbs still doing their middle class jobs in Detroit, are they.