Hey Granny, work off those taxes
Dec 26th, 2007 by Mark
Granny can work off her taxes — like criminals work off time and fines — by working for the government. Gee, thanks for nothing liberals. This is more proof that property taxes are evil.
“Allowing” Granny to work off her taxes
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh.
Greenburgh doesn’t want her to leave, either.
The town is pushing a program that would let seniors work part-time, for $7 an hour, to help pay off some of their property taxes.
Such a progressive notion. Work.
“It’s not like we’re going to see grandma running the snowplow,” he said. “There are lots of things people can do for the town and it wouldn’t cost us that much to pay them.”
Isn’t that indentured servitude?
Davison, who suffers from arthritis and sciatica and needs a walker to get around on her bad days, said she pays about $12,000 a year in property taxes - perhaps $2,000 to the town - and has already taken out a reverse mortgage to pay her bills.
When they gotcha, they gotcha. The never ending spiral of taxation. What we need to do is get the government off the IV drip of “crack” known as property taxes.
Scott Parkin, spokesman for the National Council on Aging, said the program sounded interesting, as long as it wasn’t limited to menial work. “It’s certainly in line with what we stand for, keeping seniors involved in work or volunteering as a part of healthy aging,” he said.
It’s unreal that they even see this as the way to fix the issue. It’s unreal.
Not only will this cost money to implement — who do you think will pay for the transportation — it will make government even slower. Great.
Tags: taxes, property taxes, imminant domain