Real estate taxes too high? Just downsize.

[George K]

[89th]

Amazing audio quality

[Horace]

IMO the audio wasn't very good. I don't want to get into a big argument about it though. Agree to disagree.

[taiwan_girl]

Did the audio even match with the person speaking?

[George K]

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/illinois-lawmaker-suggests-some-residents-downsize-if-they-cant-afford-property-taxes-will-county-board-natalie-coleman-d-plainfield-raquel-mitchell-r-bolingbrook

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JOLIET, Ill. (TNND) — An Illinois county board member on Thursday suggested some residents "downsize" if they can’t afford property taxes.

“We’re talking about people who are fed up with paying property taxes. I’ve been paying property taxes for 12 years,” Will County Board member Natalie Coleman, D-Plainfield, said during a board meeting. “If there comes a point in time where I couldn’t afford that, I’m going to downsize, and that might be the option for some people.”

Coleman also said that nobody in her district has complained about the taxes since she took office following her election in 2020.

We keep talking about increasing people’s taxes, people are struggling to eat, people are struggling to go here and go there, and in four years that I’ve been on the county board, I have not had one person in my district complain about property taxes,” she claimed.

Board member Raquel Mitchell, R-Bolingbrook, later said the first thing constituents ask her about is those taxes.

[jon-nyc]

I sorta did this indirectly, with a three year stint in an apartment in between.

[Axtremus]

What are the other solutions?

Move to a different tax jurisdiction?
Suppress property values with government powers?
Reduce the property tax rates?
Cap property tax increases as long as there is no change of ownership, like in California?

[Tom-K]

@Axtremus said in Real estate taxes too high? Just downsize.:

What are the other solutions?

Move to a different tax jurisdiction?

When you've got it bad, we've got it good!

[Axtremus]

@Tom-K but hurricanes.

[Jolly]

Just an occasional bother...