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burritoace t1_j9qhc90 wrote

Weird framing on the headline. The current assessment system favors owners already, it just favors long-term owners much more than new owners.

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AnewENTity t1_j9ql2mo wrote

It favors the county doing no work and pushing the burden away from older folks (mostly) and on to younger.

A good bit of never fixing this issue has been due to Rich Fitzgerald knowing If he raised taxes on old folks they’d vote him out.

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burritoace t1_j9qvwe7 wrote

Unfortunately he's such a shitty leader that he couldn't even be bothered to fix this once he had no more elections to worry about

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j9qp2zu wrote

And landlords that buy a dump, renovate, charge high rent and never sell. They will only pay taxes on the original sale price when it was a dump

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rmetcalf1230 t1_j9rx1tt wrote

Some call that “the playbook”

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j9rxspg wrote

Another cool trick is real estate developers use ground leases and creative corporate structures to avoid transfer taxes

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j9qpekf wrote

how can they call a system that is fair as favoring homeowners over the government that serves us. WESA is all over the place with their articles

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tesla3by3 t1_j9rgd1x wrote

If they had used the term “assessment appeals” it would be accurate.

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Vast-Support-1466 t1_j9ry6oy wrote

Irresponsible framing- these decisions were made back in September, so the headline is a bit click-baity. Bad WESA.

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