OK, that's definitely bullshit...LadyTevar wrote:No... I am talking a once-a-year, county-based $200 property tax on the car, based on BlueBook value. The car payment is $350/month.
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Maybe, but it's no different than paying for a dog liscense.. which is basically a tax on owners of dogs. Dogs = Property to West Virginia. It got started for 'good reasons' somewhere in the mists of time, and just kept going. Hell, the car property tax more than likely started back when a car *was* a luxury in the early 1900s, and the counties just never got rid of it cause they need the money to keep running.Crayz9000 wrote:OK, that's definitely bullshit...LadyTevar wrote:No... I am talking a once-a-year, county-based $200 property tax on the car, based on BlueBook value. The car payment is $350/month.
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The federal government still call telephones and telephone connections a luxuary item (your monthly phone bill includes the federal luxury tax), the same federal government in a different branch requires phones, AC, and heating be available in all appartments and homes.
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In South Louisianna (the parish I live in anyway) I can rent a 2 bedroom townhouse, electricity water and sewage paid, with washer and dryer, for about $500 a month. Cable with internet can cost about $100 ontop of that. You can usually find a nice 3 bedroom apartment for the same price (utilities may not be paid), or a nice 3 or 4 bedroom house for that price (obviously utilities not paid). You can even find some decent houses in the $30k-$40k range (house I'm looking into making a offer on)
Milk is $2.79/gallon, loaf of store brand white or wheat bread is between $.69-$.99 a loaf, while a nice french bread is $1.49. dozen medium eggs are $.69, 18 count is $1.00. Gas prices are about $2.21/gallon, with $37.5 per gallon taxes on that. Property taxes are only set on house and land owners, you don't pay extra on your car, your dog, etc.
I pull in about $1300 every two weeks with my job, unfortunatly my job keeps me in East Texas and the Gulf of Mexico for most of the year (such as right now...I fucking hate east Texas) with 12 hour shifts 7 days a week (so I'm pulling in 88 hours overtime per pay period)
That all being said, minimum wage is $5.25, but then again it's Louisianna, one of the seemingly most backwatered states in the US when it comes to business, I'm coming out like a bandit, except for the frigging money I spend in East Texas on groceries.....like to kill a man's pocketbook to buy a pack of frigging beef meat for a stew out here.
Milk is $2.79/gallon, loaf of store brand white or wheat bread is between $.69-$.99 a loaf, while a nice french bread is $1.49. dozen medium eggs are $.69, 18 count is $1.00. Gas prices are about $2.21/gallon, with $37.5 per gallon taxes on that. Property taxes are only set on house and land owners, you don't pay extra on your car, your dog, etc.
I pull in about $1300 every two weeks with my job, unfortunatly my job keeps me in East Texas and the Gulf of Mexico for most of the year (such as right now...I fucking hate east Texas) with 12 hour shifts 7 days a week (so I'm pulling in 88 hours overtime per pay period)
That all being said, minimum wage is $5.25, but then again it's Louisianna, one of the seemingly most backwatered states in the US when it comes to business, I'm coming out like a bandit, except for the frigging money I spend in East Texas on groceries.....like to kill a man's pocketbook to buy a pack of frigging beef meat for a stew out here.
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