Sunday, April 01, 2007

Subject: A Fairer Tax Structure: Hey Larry, it looks like The Press is making the same point you make here repeatedly about how the Republican cuts in income taxes have made residnets of middle class towns pay a lot more in property taxes to support their schools. The Press hypes an article for this Sunday’s Press by pointing to a middle class town, Upper Township in Cape May County where as a fairly well off resident with a home valued at $340,000 you are paying in property taxes to support schools $3,028. This compares to the richest town in Cape May County, Avalon, where if you are a super rich Republican with a big mansion worth 1.5 million dollars, your property tax bill for schools is only $550. You have repeatedly referred to this here as the Republi CON that claims to cut taxes but the reality is that only the rich are the beneficiaries of their tax cuts when one takes into consideration both income and property tax burdens combined. The Press article will make the point that a County wide school District would distribute the taxes of the guy who lives in Upper and is probably one who votes Republican living in $340,000 house (and is voting against his own interest by voting Republican) and would be better off if the tax burden were evenly distributed among all in the County to educated all the County kids. Of course that would mean that the super rich guy in Avalon in his million and half estate would have to pay more. But he has been getting away with theft via the Republican 30 percent income tax cut for over a decade now. Okay, I am beginning to see the light too. Former Republican Voter

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