Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Bob Ackley:

 BK>>>>>  So, tell me about these oppressive taxes. Just
which taxes would
 BK>>>>> that be? A short list would be nice.

 BA>>>> Income and property taxes for starts, the rates are
 BA>>>> outrageous.

 BK>>>  I pay something on the order of 10% on income after all is
 BK>>>  figured.  How is that so much?

 BA>> That's just about 2.5 times what the government said would
 BA>> be the maximum rate when the tax was invented.  It's also
 BA>> much higher than the taxes that sparked the American
 BA>> Revolution.

 BK>  It wasn't the amount, but the taxation without representation.

 BK>  And my income is much higher than when the tax was invented.

Doesn't matter.  The tax rate is what I was talking about, not the tax
dollars.

 BK>>> Property taxes? Live somewhere cheaper.

 BA>> Paying less than a grand in property taxes seems to be the
 BA>> exception rather than the rule.  When I lived in

 BK>  Then where are your excessive property taxes?

Right below.

 BA>> Plattsmouth, over a 29 year period my property taxes went
 BA>> up over 1,000 percent (from about $80/year to over
 BA>> $900/year, between 1976 and 2005); this on an 825 square
 BA>> foot hovel that was built in about 1880 on a lot that
 BA>> measured 44 x 150 feet (less easements).  The tax on the
 BA>> place is probably over a grand/year today.

 BK>  A hovel? Then move to Ohio. I pay more than that, but I have a
 BK>  larger and better house. Except the portion where my computers
 BK>  are kept, my wife does have something to say about that.

I moved to Iowa.  I pay lower property taxes (in dollars) on my place
here - which is valued at more than twice that of the house in Plattsmouth,
includes a house more than twice as big as the one in Plattsmouth, 3 outbuildings
and 2 acres of ground - than I did on that house in Plattsmouth.  In point of fact
the effective property tax rate in Plattsmouth was *five times* the effective
rate here in rural Mills County.

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