Taxes got you down?
#21
Wow! This kind of info is always interesting to me. I live in the Minneapolis Metro area, and we have a 2200sf house. On about 1/4 acre I guess. It is in town with neighbors on all sides. We pay about $2600 in taxes. Not bad, but not great either. Unfortunately, this area has been really hard hit with forclosures, like 4 of the 6 houses around us were foreclosed on, so our value is down the tubes. I would guess that if I were to appeal the taxes, we could probably get them lowered considering the prices houses are going for around here.
#22
We have a good sized house (2300 sq. ft.) on a lot that you could spit across and our tax bill this year is $2200. Not nearly as much as a lot of you pay, but a lot for our little echonomicaly(sp) depressed town. Wisconsin has horrible tax rates and going higher all the time.
#23
Originally Posted by Lostn51
Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
Originally Posted by LovingIzabella
Like $35 round trip per day is not enough for them when the people are standing for a 2 hour train ride!! GRRRR!
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If you get a commuter monthly pass it is something to the effect of about $500 for the month....always something here
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Originally Posted by Mamagus
I was reading another thread about the monstrous prices of medical in the U.S... Don't know what that is either!
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Originally Posted by LovingIzabella
Like Billy said the cost of living here is through the roof but I am in upstate NY not "the hood"
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#28
I found out that the value for tax purposes is actually based on home sales from two years ago, not current. They update the value every three years here, so I am paying more right now than I should, but it will come out in the wash down the road. As a public school teacher in one of the worst funded states for education in the nation, I don't quibble over what I pay. My school district has to cut 18 million dollars from it's budget this next year and a total of 34 million over the next three. Right now I teach three classes a day (95 minutes each) with 36 kids per class. My school of close to 1000 kids is losing 5 teachers. That means that next year, my class sizes will be around 42 kids per class. I teach 7th grade literacy and have a class of special needs students integrated with advanced students. Differentiating for the needs in my classroom is next to impossible.
Now, as a parent, I cannot imagine my children getting a quality education with 42 kids in the classroom. Not only that, but we are going to have two furlough days (which means two days less to plan for educating the students), have a pay freeze, and have less sick days. (I am sitting here typing this as I sneeze and cough, playing hooky because I am too sick to go to school from a cold I got from a student!) So, when I look at taxes that go to support education, I feel like I am paying back for my own education and helping to provide a decent income for the teachers who are overwhelmed and not given enough resources to adequately teach. (I have NO textbook, only 2000 copies a month I can make, and I purchase most of the educational resources I do use out of my own pocket.)
Ironically, I also pay close to $11,000 a year for my own children to go to a private school because I refuse to place them in a public school where about 38% of the students do not speak English as their first language.
Now, as a parent, I cannot imagine my children getting a quality education with 42 kids in the classroom. Not only that, but we are going to have two furlough days (which means two days less to plan for educating the students), have a pay freeze, and have less sick days. (I am sitting here typing this as I sneeze and cough, playing hooky because I am too sick to go to school from a cold I got from a student!) So, when I look at taxes that go to support education, I feel like I am paying back for my own education and helping to provide a decent income for the teachers who are overwhelmed and not given enough resources to adequately teach. (I have NO textbook, only 2000 copies a month I can make, and I purchase most of the educational resources I do use out of my own pocket.)
Ironically, I also pay close to $11,000 a year for my own children to go to a private school because I refuse to place them in a public school where about 38% of the students do not speak English as their first language.
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Originally Posted by MistyMarie
I found out that the value for tax purposes is actually based on home sales from two years ago, not current. They update the value every three years here, so I am paying more right now than I should, but it will come out in the wash down the road. As a public school teacher in one of the worst funded states for education in the nation, I don't quibble over what I pay. My school district has to cut 18 million dollars from it's budget this next year and a total of 34 million over the next three. Right now I teach three classes a day (95 minutes each) with 36 kids per class. My school of close to 1000 kids is losing 5 teachers. That means that next year, my class sizes will be around 42 kids per class. I teach 7th grade literacy and have a class of special needs students integrated with advanced students. Differentiating for the needs in my classroom is next to impossible.
Now, as a parent, I cannot imagine my children getting a quality education with 42 kids in the classroom. Not only that, but we are going to have two furlough days (which means two days less to plan for educating the students), have a pay freeze, and have less sick days. (I am sitting here typing this as I sneeze and cough, playing hooky because I am too sick to go to school from a cold I got from a student!) So, when I look at taxes that go to support education, I feel like I am paying back for my own education and helping to provide a decent income for the teachers who are overwhelmed and not given enough resources to adequately teach. (I have NO textbook, only 2000 copies a month I can make, and I purchase most of the educational resources I do use out of my own pocket.)
Ironically, I also pay close to $11,000 a year for my own children to go to a private school because I refuse to place them in a public school where about 38% of the students do not speak English as their first language.
Now, as a parent, I cannot imagine my children getting a quality education with 42 kids in the classroom. Not only that, but we are going to have two furlough days (which means two days less to plan for educating the students), have a pay freeze, and have less sick days. (I am sitting here typing this as I sneeze and cough, playing hooky because I am too sick to go to school from a cold I got from a student!) So, when I look at taxes that go to support education, I feel like I am paying back for my own education and helping to provide a decent income for the teachers who are overwhelmed and not given enough resources to adequately teach. (I have NO textbook, only 2000 copies a month I can make, and I purchase most of the educational resources I do use out of my own pocket.)
Ironically, I also pay close to $11,000 a year for my own children to go to a private school because I refuse to place them in a public school where about 38% of the students do not speak English as their first language.
#30
we just got notice that our county taxes are going up 15% this year. So our new tax bill is about 5K a year.
We have 34 acres, not prime area, a 2,300 sq ft house, not custom, and a pole barn and pavilion. Certainly not a mcmansion.
we're footing the bill for 3 judges and a commissioner who raped the county. (total of 23 people in the county that took bribes). The good ole boy network alive and well in Luzerne county.
I'd leave but hubby won't.
We have 34 acres, not prime area, a 2,300 sq ft house, not custom, and a pole barn and pavilion. Certainly not a mcmansion.
we're footing the bill for 3 judges and a commissioner who raped the county. (total of 23 people in the county that took bribes). The good ole boy network alive and well in Luzerne county.
I'd leave but hubby won't.
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