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My god I am so sick and tired of boomers pretending that moving into a smaller house is some kind of human rights abuse

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DANIEL GOT HITS

@danielgothits

Jan 1

property taxes need to be fixed in America You can’t expect someone who’s 67, or 72, or 85 to keep paying the government $10,000-15,000 every year just to live in their own paid off house lol If you defend this system you’re brainwashed. Nowhere else costs this much only here

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The problem is because everything got so expensive the boomers are going to get slammed with huge capital gains taxes for moving, so they don't get the benefits you'd think. My dad bought his house in Arizona in the 1980s and he won't really come out ahead at the end of the day.

oh no a 15% capital gains tax on a million dollar sale oh no oh no

@OhioBikeLawyer

as a 67-yr old boomer in a house I love & I am still paying off- why move? I have a low % rate- lower payments than rent-space-quiet-woods-pool -home office/virtual office- I lived through 15-18% interest rates, 3 yr ARMs-Nobody handed me anything-worked hard to get here-

From your description I can't see why you would move. Sure. Yes.

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I disagree. They have spent decades paying off that house. If they buy another house, that's just another move, another transition, another getting used to a new place. They're elderly. They have health issues. They deserve to live in the house that they put their heart into.

Oh my god the entitlement is so gross

Why should they have to move?

Because they can't afford their property taxes on a house that's now way larger than they need?

You should see how much property taxes is in New Jersey

I did see when I was considering moving there a few years ago. It's terrible. Large part of why I stayed put

@johnwlockwoodiv

Smaller houses now cost more to buy than the larger house they already have.

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@Ellies2ndaccnt

Excuse me? I'm not a boomer. And I plan on retiring at some point in this house. Which is small enough. I worked my ass off to finally be able to buy a house in my late 30s and I'm not moving into a condo (basically back into an apartment) so some ass can move into my house.

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How much is your home worth and where do you live?

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The “just buy a starter house” crowd wants us to pay their property taxes.

Yupp

I really hope your words are a joke. People getting pushed out of their housing is far from a laughing matter.

Less pushed out and more “selling a large, valuable house and moving into something smaller and less expensive”

It’s not the smaller house it’s moving period from a home they raised their families in.

And now their family moved out. Christ. The entitlement is absurd

@herrmann_kevin

Wait until you are 80 years old and see how much energy you have to move out of someplace you have lived for 40!years.

Yeah I'm sure I'll hire movers jfc

My god I am so sick and tired of socialists expecting to suck every single dollar out of americans until their death for their frivioulus programs and bloated government.

Property taxes usually pay for local schools but go off I guess, weirdo

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I like the idea that somebody can visit their parents and bring along their wife and children without having to sleep on the floor. Why else would somebody work hard all their life if not for family life? We really need to stop allowing profiteers the freedom to bleed us dry.

Profiteers? Wut? You know who also wants houses? Young families

It’s way too early for takes this bad. You need to ease us into it. It’s a new year!

“I can’t afford property taxes on my huge million dollar home so I shouldn’t have to pay them” is the bad take

Commies... There entire political philosophy is based on envy.

lol

I think shifting the property tax burden to the working age makes complete sense. After all, we should pitch in and do more for the common good to pay back for the sacrifices made by our parents. For those <50, a 25% annual tax based on market value seems do-able.

did a boomer write this lmfao

ℕ𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕋𝕚𝕘𝕚𝕥𝕪.

Not sure you get the point. It is about principle. The government really owns the land you live on and can remove you from it for not paying taxes on it. Even if you work hard and pay for it all of your life. It applies to you also. No matter how lg or small your home is

And that’s how police fire and schools are funded 🤷‍♂️

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Since I know nothing about how it works over there, but our housing shortage wouldn't get fully resolved if older people just sold their homes. Since were talking about a shortage it makes more sense that more houses are being build right?

Yeah def - build more. But scumbag retirees often crash city planning meetings and whine loudly against new housing

I don’t know, pushing people into poverty or homelessness who thought they were retiring responsibly 20 years ago is pretty rough. Especially if it’s taxes causing it. The biggest growth in homelessness is people age 50+ and it’s projected to get worse. Feels bad.

Telling people to downsize their house isn't pushing anyone into homelessness?

Mike @ Canteen Spice Company

That's ok we're tired of renters talking like they actually know something about finance, liberty, or the real world.

I’m a homeowner but go off I guess

You honestly don’t think property taxes are evil?

They're objectively less regressive than alternatives

your boot, sir

lol wut? Old fucking boomers tying up huge housing that young people could be buying, and complaining about their property tax, and you’re siding with the boomers? Selling a house after your kids are out of it and moving into something smaller is a good thing jfc

I’m tired of the younger generations sounding like entitled brats

Entitled is not wanting to pay your property taxes like everyone else 🤷‍♂️

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Law of Self Defense

@LawSelfDefense

Wait until you work your whole life to own a home, and then the government taxes it away from you. I'm sure you'll be ecstatic about the experience, right, sparky?

Takes it away? You mean me choosing to sell it and cash out?

It is.

lolol moving sucks but it’s not that bad

I have extended family that live with granny in a 2,500 sq ft home w/a detached ADU. It’s nice to have a roomy place so that family can help each other. It’s a win for everyone. Sit down.

Uhhhhhh nobody is telling you to move anywhere. The OP was about boomer retirees being unable to pay $15K in property taxes on a paid-off million dollar home

My 80yo dad looked into downsizing to a retirement condo but it cost 2X his home that he bought in 1970. We can’t afford to put him in a nursing home. He has no income (only SSN) to pay property taxes. Now what?

That genuinely sucks and I'm so sorry. I assume the problem wasn't that his property taxes were too high, just that he wanted to be in a retirement condo?

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I'm so sick of boomer bashing

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lmaoooooooooo bro lives in oklahoma

I live in a nice suburb in OK, yes. There's million dollar homes, and $100K homes within a 10 minute drive of me. What's your point?

I'm older than a boomer, my home is 1370 sq ft and I have to pay $7,200 in property taxes a year. Now what is your argument?

Where is it what what’s it worth?

Thunder_Chicken

@Thunder_Chicken

Who can afford to move?

Anyone who just sold a house they own outright?

@JohnFoster52522

What you’re saying is that you’re ok with taxing someone out of their home?

If you can’t afford your home move somewhere smaller 🤷‍♂️

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Best in Classs and Steady Steve

Fu

ok

Property tax on something paid of is just theft. Not hard to figure that out

That's how police fire and schools are funded. It's less regressive than income taxes

@Cecilia2078602

You know my husband and I looked into moving into a smaller home. We’re in our 70s. Guess what smaller homes are more expensive than what we have now. Go figure.

GIF

lol you probably invest in real estate in the metaverse

Nah, just my actual home irl

Enjoy your tent in the park.

Nah I'll enjoy my house

Jolly Christian Voluntaryist

@Ancap_Christian

Threatening to take someone's house & potentially cage or murder them at the barrel of a gun if they don't pay you is a human rights abuse no matter the age

Nah the suggestion is sell the house and move somewhere smaller

John Shackleford

Continuing to pay the government for the privilege of living in a house you paid for is a rights violation. It's frigging theft. I'm not a boomer, had that crap figured out years ago.

You're paying for use of the land, to fund fire police and schools

And I'm sick and tired of out of touch bootlickers who don't realize that "just move into a smaller house" is easier said than done during a housing crisis, and ANY house is one questionable reappraisal away from having unaffordable taxes.

haha bootlicker - freak

@TheConnor_Hayes

I’m amenable to arguments about the virtue of property taxes, even for the elderly. But people arguing like this only makes a clearly unpalatable issue even harder to swallow.

If your house is worth enough to be paying $15K a year in taxes it's worth enough for you to sell it and make a pretty penny

Don't worry, I ain't moving,my government pension, social security and my house being paid off, will make sure of that.

Nobody says you should

Team bootlicker

lmao wut

There’s no “windfall” if everyone else’s property increased by the same %. It’s not like finding oil on your property.

Same % on a smaller home value = less taxes

Abolish property taxes, abolish income taxes simple

That’d be a great society to live in I’m sure

Property taxes are theft, you twat. If retirees decided to move to more affordable country with that wonderful windfall you keep talking about, they have to pay an exit tax. You’re intolerable.

lol

"Just give the government more money or accept a lower standard of living," said the blatant Marxist.

You mean reap a financial windfall and move into a smaller house

Craig for Common Sense

My god! I am so sick of Millennials and GenZ thinking they deserve to live in a home bigger than 1000 sqft! Why shouldn’t they have to sacrifice like boomers had too

Millennials and GenZ can live in whatever they can afford 🤷‍♂️

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powell4michigan

@powell4westland

There is no reason you should have to pay the government endlessly to live in a house and on property you bought. Income tax is theft.

It funds police fire and schools

It’s not their fault their home price increased that much. It’s just a house to live in. The value has been inflated for no reason and now they have to pay more nominally in taxes. Kinda bs

So sell and move somewhere smaller / cheaper and pocket the difference 🤷‍♂️

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depends on where? If a boomer owns their home in the bay area, its likely a small 3/2 if that. Don't blame them because cities refuse to build. Plus, moving doesn't take the burden of the tax away.

Moving to a smaller home will greatly reduce the tax bill

@Tammywi27443369

Are you kidding? When the cost of a small house is the same? Small houses used to be affordable. I guess it depends on what city you live in.

Small houses do not cost the same as big ones (other factors being equal) jfc be serious

I am, and I can't believe I'm saying this, with the boomers on this one. Property taxes are bullshit. Local services should be funded through federal/state income taxes and allocated evenly across the relevant jurisdictions

Shoving that burden on younger working Americans while boomers sit on a million dollars in home equity would be so gross

Rapscallion in Training

Yeah, Heaven forbid somebody should expect to be able to keep the house they sacrificed and paid for over decades. Craziness, amirite?

Sell it and make a windfall profit. Oh no how terrible

My house has been in the family for 100 years, why do we need to keep paying property tax, why do you think people should be forced out their house. Why do you want people to live like bugs

> why do we need to keep paying property tax Because police, fire, schools and roads need to be maintained? Hope that helps

Christopher Nelson

Taxation is theft

Nah I like the good schools near me

This has to be one of the dumbest takes I have ever read on Twitter. Congratulations. Also: the tiny little modest home I grew up in on the West side of Seattle now has a property tax bill larger than the mortgage. If my parents wished to stay in that area, they couldn’t afford a

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Well your property taxes have not gone to wars. They went to your Seattle local government. If the area sucks as bad as you say it does I’d recommend moving 🤷‍♂️

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Infamous_Gazelle02

@InfamousQazelle

My kid pays $200/month more for his 2 bedroom - 1 bath apartment than I do for my mortgage on a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house on 2 acres of land with a 4-stall garage. Your argument is completely out of touch with reality.

Uh huh - where's your kid's apartment?

It’s a trashy communist idea. People have homes. They own them. Get your own home.

I own my own home, yes

Government is a human rights abuse.

sorry lil buddy gotta clean up my mentions

It used to be the standard advice for retirement. Downsizing now that you don't have kids to take advantage of your equity as retirement income. And it's not like most of them have actually nice houses with character in the first place.

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You’re despicable.

Hahaha you just re-tweeted this to your 300 followers

Imagine licking the boot as it steps on your neck. Why does anyone think more taxes is a good thing. Especially when they see what we spend it on

Property taxes are spent on public education

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@UpcomingEvents8

Imagine thinking an elderly person who's worked their entire life to have and keep what they earned is somehow the problem while simultaneously giving Government, who's created the problem a pass. What a fucking CUNT.

Sell the house and move somewhere smaller. They'd make a windfall. It's ok!

Holy fck can you simp for the IRS any harder? TF is wrong with you?

Property taxes don't go to the IRS

When you get to their age and have the same problem guaranteed your going to be saying the same thing.

I hope I never think I’m too entitled to have to pay property taxes on a huge house

I mean what is it with these boomers occupying a family villa? Move into a bungalow or a condo and let the next generation use the house. Lol

And save money in the process!!!!!

Gets a little tiring hearing millennials try to dictate what entire generations other than their own ought to do as well.

They can do as they please. But if they can’t afford their house anymore … might be time to sell

It's not just the house. It's also the neighborhood which they probably lived in for over 30 years. Just up and move to some smaller house? In a new community when you're 75? Perfect reason to abolish property taxes.

Oh my god the cope. A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD?!?! Like yeah move to a new neighborhood jesus. It's not that deep.

You belong in a locker Nerd

GIF

haha I'll bet high school was your glory days