• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s really not that crazy in some areas.

      They had municipal taxes, county taxes, school district taxes (when massive school bonds pass every single year without fail that one can really add up), emergency service district taxes, Water District taxes, Healthcare District taxes.

      That shit adds up when the value of your property doubles every 3 years like it has been doing in Texas.

      • glockenspiel@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        No, $40k/yr in property taxes is insane unless your parents own several mansions, even for Texas where the highest property tax rates are around 2.5%. Even if you tack on millages and bonds and other things there’s no way it gets near that.

        There’s a lot of bad takes and clear misinformation from disaffected people in this thread. Stuff like this should be obvious.