PROPERTY TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGG GGGGGG!!!!!!!

Hade to let it out.

 

twice a year you mean!

 

Ah yes, twice a year. I painfully pay my 2 bills at the same time just to get it over with. $6,000 total!!!!
Do you know what I can get for my car with $6k?!?!?
I can get a Plasma for my office!!!
I can get a new Mac with a 30 inch display!!!
I can get BOSE surround sound!!!
I can get a Jet-ski for summer!!!
I can go to Miami and take a cruise to Jamaica!!!!

 

I keep the money around for the full payment but no point in giving the Man my money before it's due. Might as well try to make a few hundred dollars off it from HSBC before sending it in. It's no trip to Jamaica but it's a lot of double-doubles!

 

No $hit Brother.... you know what I get for my $6K per annum property tax in SF?

1. Streets with so many potholes that I've had to replace my front wheel bearings.

2. Public schools within wallking distance that I can't send my daughter to and therefore
have to place her in private school at an additional $6K a year.

3. Having to step over homless people on the way to work every evening.

4. A city that is forcing us to plant a tree in front of our house.

5. A DPT that charges $2.50 an hour to park on the freakin street and a $50 ticket as soon
as the expiration flag goes up.

That's what I'm getting for my $6K.

 

Well put topcover

Gotta love CA

 

Considering you actually make enough to even buy a house in the Bay Area, I'd have to say get over it.

 

40% of your paycheck goes to the government, then after that, you pay sales tax on everything you buy, tax on stuff you own, and taxes when you die (you dont, but your family does on the stuff you leave behind). Sucks, but the alternative is the pokey with Bubba.

 

taxes suck. CA property taxes fall around the worse time ever, holidays and when income taxes are due. property taxes in other states kick in at different times of the year.

stan aka topcover, I'll take 6k private school over 12k preschool.

 

It doesn't have to be this way.

http://www.lp.org/issues/cut-taxes.shtml

 

Just be thankful we have Proposition 13.

 

I don't think taxes suck. It's a necessity. What I hate is how the money is disributed and managed. So much waste, so many freakin' PROGRAMS aimed at people who abuse them. I won't bitczh about paying taxes if:

1. All of the schools were great schools and we didn't have to bus kids from one neighborhood to another. They'd be able to walk to school like we did when I was a kid.

2. We have a transit system that was safe to use at night and ran remotely on time.

3. We provided programs in the City that got the homeless off of the street, have them work on SF's infrastructure or contribute to the City's well being in return for food and shelter.

4. The City was a little more forward thinking and support mom and pop stores by reducing the amount of bull$hit taxation and bureaucracy needed to stay open. Support entrepenuers, that's what made America great.

That's all I want. Not too much to ask for from a simple tax paying, registered voter like me... right?

 

hahah i hear ya topcover property tax payment blows!!i just sent mine yesterday just to get it out of the way.6k can definitely buy you plenty of stuff

 

and its all **** you dont need haha, reguardless of all that you own a home as do alot of us but most dont own their home... so ill pay my taxes with a face like everyone eles, and come home and be glad its actually mine.

+ california freaking rocks! i mean look at the weather... you gotta love it

 

Yeah it hurts to pay that bill! But hell having a house here in the bay area . . . well let's just say not everyone can have one!