like most people i did not have nearly enough money to buy the house i live in outright and so had to take out a mortgage...fairly standard stuff in life...and i paid on that mmortgage for twenty-five yeras while raising the children...and i paid property taxes and insurance premiums all as part of the monthly payment...which was fine...i had children in the local school system and that was paid for out of property taxes...so it seemd at least reasonably equitable...the payments felt never ending, however at an unspecified moment i owned the property...sort of...a few months after the bank got thier final payment i got a bill for the property taxes...by this time the "children" were adults and mostly not living at home and definitely not in the local school system...yet the county still insists i pay property taxes and will happily seize my home if i don't...so i rent my home from the grifters in the county seat...i got another tax bill a few days ago and the assessed value of my home is up by about $14,000...and so is my tax bill...astoundingly the grifters have consulted their ouija board and...
they have concluded that my home's value will continue to appreciate over the next year so they feel entitled to a larger share of my wealth for that period...let's be clear...the county does nothing for me...it does not plow my street, pick up my garbage, repair the pavements, or police the streets...in fact the only function the county sheriffs might serve herabouts is to dispossess those who are overly delinquent in their tax bills...enforcers saying "get your stuff and get out, this property is no longer yours"...there is something grossly egregious in all this...epsecially in the bahvioral sump that passes for "public service" in this county...i received a mailing from "your local township assessor" a few days later asking for my support in the approaching primary...his family was prominently displayed as "local home owners" which left me wondering what their tax bills are like...my vote would seem unlikely to go to the incumbent...the problem is any replacement is a carny grifter in waiting.
