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Originally Posted by Pugchief
There is another option?
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So we mostly agree on all your points above, but you ignored my assertion:
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I wish there was another option..... Can you imagine how much less our burden would be without waste and abuse and fraud. Perhaps that is were AI would be helpful. Do away with elected officials and let logical AI run the show.
My apologies. But I think I did answer that with my "pay to play" mindset. You use a service, you pay for it. You don't use a service, you don't pay. Let's look at law enforcement (current tax system) for example. We can all reasonably believe that the vast majority who currently use law enforcement aren't paying for it (aren't paying taxes).
Would not us as residents pay the majority of tax in any form if we lived here full time? We'd buy more gas, pay more tolls and buy more goods than a tourist or snowbird......technically. That was an attempt to answer your assertion. I think that may have answered it.
Even the simple 500K tax exemption would be something. Of course I come from MN where my burden for the same value home was 21% of what I'm paying here. I can't believe what some people tolerate when they say this is cheap here compared to where they came from. And lets look at that MN property. There is no scenario that I can think of where law enforcement or fire will arrive in time to be useful or effective. So what am I paying for?