North Dakota voters will decide this fall whether to eliminate property taxes in what would be a first for a state and a major change that officials initially estimate would require more than $1 billion every year in replacement revenue.
Secretary of State Michael Howe’s office said Friday that backers submitted more than enough signatures to qualify the constitutional initiative for the November general election. Voters rejected a similar measure in 2012.
Property taxes are the base funding for numerous local government services, including sewers, water, roads, jails, deputies, school building construction and teacher salaries — “pretty much the most basic of government,” said North Dakota Association of Counties Executive Director Aaron Birst.
Lmao. Dumbasses.
That’ll show them socialist fascist commie lefty groomers.
“What do you mean we have no police,fire,schools,water,roads? What happened?”-- dumbasses who ended property tax at the urging of the wealthy
Oh this is curious! Cause the solution would be for those services to be privatized. I wonder how many would pay for those services.
“No, Jimmy. You don’t need to go to skool. Now go change bale the hay.”
Sure thing daddy-brother!!
gets mangled in the baler because he’s an idiot then dies because they closed down the firestation and first responders
Big A Libertarian Walks into a Bear energy.
Fun fact. That was in Grafton, NH. NH doesn’t have sales tax. Instead, there’s a correspondingly high property tax.
At least they get good value for it. The schools aren’t terrible, and the roads are better than the much wealthier state of MA right nearby.
Does North Dakota have the same tourism industry that New Hampshire has?
Definitely not. There’s Teddy Roosevelt National Park, which is gorgeous, but it doesn’t attract nearly as much tourism of all the stuff that’s four hours south…
South Dakota has Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, Mammoth Site, Black Hills National Forest, Deadwood and Sturgis, a couple good private zoos in Reptile Gardens and Bear Country. All of that stuff is within a 1 hour drive of Rapid City, which has plenty of good hotels and restaurants and just generally what you’d expect from a modern midsize city. Rapid City is honestly worth the trip for anyone, but If you’re a real outdoorsy person then you could easily enjoy a month out there. Oh and then not that far away (relatively speaking - 2 hours drive) is Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.
So no… NoDak is comparatively sparse. And they probably like it that way.
There definitely are better taxes than property taxes. But, since it’s a red state, they would probably replace it with a worse one. Or just debt.
It’ll probably be replaced with sales tax increases. Sales taxes are very well-known to be regressive.
Or think of “low-tax” Texas, where every other road is privately operated and charges tolls out the ass.
Even ignoring privatized services, taxes in Texas are higher than California for the average person. It’s a total myth unless you belong to the upper class.
Hence why “low tax” is between quotation marks
“Every other road…” serious [citation needed] there. I live in San Antonio (you know 6th, largest city, metro of 2.2m people) and there’s not a single toll road. Austin, Dallas and Houston have a few but it’s by far not every other road. You can get around on 10, 35, 45 and the corresponding ring roads just fine.
Also the property taxes here are quite high compared to a lot of other states, but as such there’s no state income tax.
Another red welfare state making it worse
They’re replacing it with Land Value Tax, right? Right?..
Or sales tax, or something else. High taxation and misuse of taxes is bad, but taxes themselves support the infrastructure everyone uses. So if they get rid of this, something else is going to have to take its place unless the property tax was way too high.
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