Property Tax Protest

Taxes an over-regulation result in high taxes. High real estate tax rates as well as sales and income taxes are funding the excess. An economic system's makeup is either controlled by a by big government looking out for your best interest or consumer entrepreneurs looking out for your interests. National socialism on one extreme, pure laze-faire capitalism on the other; Germany in the late 1930's or the13 original colonies. The politics of greed and over-regulation or the entrepenuer spirit encouraged.

The deregulation proposed by the Regan administration had not gone far enough. Interlocking directorates in government and private enterprise were never outlawed. The military industrial complex intertwined by government legislation limits bidders to a bare minimum. Contracts are purposefully not written in easy-language. Corporate officers and CEO's sitting on other company's board of directors usually rubber stamp perks and executive pay. Stockholders would never vote for that extravagance. The justice system does nothing about that con game.

It's proven that big government is not efficiently looking out for your interest and can easily be corrupted despite checks and balances. Government greed has reached beyond the federal level to the local level. Bureaucrats have devised pay hikes and benefit system for themselves that even allow for 20-years work and retire at 75% pay plus lavish health care and other benefits. The average taxpayer has to work 45 years before retirement. Government is very expensive. Their tentacles even got to the cops, teachers and firemen. Property taxes are out of control because the greedsters have insulated themselves by keeping cost cutting off the ballot.

When private business looks out for your interest they take on the risk in a calculated gamble. If their bet is correct, and you as a consumer buy their product or service, they are rewarded. If they calculate wrong, they lose their savings and time. The entrepreneur takes the risk. The money is there only if they do things right.

With government, the taxpayer takes the risk. And guess what? The bureaucrat hardly ever rescinds inefficient programs, policies, pay hikes, extravagant perks ... Look around, are taxes going down?

The often good-hearted liberal left winger is greedy for votes "helping the disadvantaged." It caused a mortgage crisis by passing legislation allowing those with shaky credit to buy homes. No bank in the world would have lent them money without guarantees from the government (taxpayer). Now the bailouts begin and the American taxpayer has to foot the bill... again.

Liberal do-gooders' "protective" legislation screwed the healthcare system as well. If you're straight, don't smoke, not overweight, good gene pool ... etc., you're lumped in with obese, smokers, gays ... and are pooled with those added risk factors. Add those regulations to the protective lobbies have regulated and prevented medical schools from opening in the United States and you have a crisis. A tidal wave or foreign doctors jumped in to fill the gap. If the system worked you'd have as many medical schools as there were auto mechanics schools. Who wouldn't like to make $200,000 or more a year working on a model doesn't change like it does when you learn auto mechanics?

Regulations have it so you can't buy health insurance from a company operating more efficiently out of state. As a family of four, I paid over $1,400 a month for health insurance. Recently, I dropped off the plan; can't afford it and so I am uninsured. Co-pay regulations keep most from even going to a doctor because they are strapped by living costs insurance cost and taxes. They forgo preventative and essential checkups and visits to the doctor just to save money.

Then there are the illegal's. The good-hearted liberals want the votes from the fence jumpers. Statistics show that 90% vote Democratic because of easy grab bag benefits they are promised. The 20 million or so illegal aliens drive the price of labor down and add to the cost of services. The law of supply and demand has the average retail store worker today earning the same $8 an hour salary as they did 12 year ago. If there was a shortage of labor, workers could demand more pay.

Perhaps government lobbyist needs to be imprisoned similar to anyone trying to bribe a jury. Witness tampering in a court case leads to corruption of the results. Likewise, influence pedaling is affecting the taxpayer on a massive scale. Healthcare, banking, defense industries ... etc. are no longer an unregulated private enterprise. Instead they are over-regulated and interwoven by politicians that have limited competition and driven the cost for these services sky high.

On a local level, putting issues, budget approvals, and the like on the ballot instead of this ongoing con game would be a start. Deregulate government so it is socially responsive by favoring taxpayer management rather than management by stand quo of top-down lobbied government would be a good start. We need to keep it real. We need transparency. Taxpayers could limit budget increases and should have oversight for the allocation areas. Why don't these choices appear on the voter's ballot? Wouldn't voters like to see the system work on a local level?

How about limiting property tax hikes by indexing them to inflation or initiating a 10% across the board budget cut or experiment with outsourcing certain pet project, police protection, etc. to the lowest bidders?

Is there a way to legalize that question on all ballots each and every year? It seems that is the only control citizen taxpayers could have to control the money spigot to the politicians.

Property tax reduction specifics are most taxpayer's mantra. Regulations have it so it never sees light of day let alone putting it to vote on the ballot ticket. Deregulation and real budget voter choice would give sanity and power back to the people. Learn more about property tax appeals and click: real estate tax : real guidelines and workbook solutions for lowering your property taxes

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