This Poll is Just For Politically Active People

[ThomWV]

Poll question: This Poll is Just For Politically Active People

And for this case I will define 'politically active' as a person who has contaced either his Representative, Senators, or the White House and expressed his or her opnion.

This is the question: Have you ever contacted your Representative or Senators requesting a DECREASE in taxes.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I've literally put my money where my mouth is

when asked about the tax situation. I've recited the duties of every citizen, and stressed that paying taxes is one of them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Yes.

I registered a complaint that the taxes in my city were out of balance with the assessed value. That the taxable value, two years in a row, went up $1500, while the assessed value went down. I did this in conjunction with an appraisal I am having done on my home (appraisers can't appraise their own homes) to send in to the tribunal. Michigan homeowners are being taxed out of their homes.

[ThomWV]

4. You may have noticed that I restricted this to Representatives or Senators

Well, their offices I guess is what I meant to say.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. And I stated I wrote to their offices (Sen Levin, to be exact) to complain

about this.

[alfredo]

3. No, but I asked them not to raise taxes on the poor through the raising

and issuing of fees for tracking down deadbeat dads.

[Mabus]

5. Does this count?

I contacted and lobbied my city commission members about decreasing a proposed tax abatement they were offering for a company that was thinking about moving into the area. I also spoke at the city commission meeting along with other members of a group we formed to reform the way the city offered/handed out tax abatements.

fwiw, the company in question did not locate in our town. Instead, t went about 25 miles south to a town where no objections to their request for an 80%+ tax abatement was granted.

on edit: nevermind, I saw the response to MrsGrumpy

[Burma Jones]

7. Not at the Federal Level

But I used to live in Westchester County, NY, and those taxes were insane. Oddly enough, there was an arcane appeal process that lawyers would do for you for half of your first year's property tax reduction, and it always made the lawyer and the taxpayer some cash.

[guitar man]

8. yes I have

I wrote a letter to my state rep about reducing taxes and I'll tell you why.

I have watched over the years here in Oklahoma as we have "privatized" many functions that used to be handled by the state and local govts. The rationale behind this has always been that "the private sector can do it better and we can lower taxes"

Well, right a cross the street from wehre I work there is a firm that has benefited from this "privatization" and is now employing people in jobs that were formerly state jobs with state pay and benefits in so called "private sector" jobs, doing the same thing for a fraction of the pay and benefits.

Looking at their parking lot, it's divided into two sections, where the employees park outside the fence, and where the owner and execs park, inside the fence. In the employee lot, the newest car I see is a '98, most are between '93-95 or so and most of them look pretty worn out. The obviously represent the best that the employees can afford.

In the lot inside the fence, I see the owner's car, a new Ford GT-40, I think those run somewhere between $275-$300k, a brand new Jag and a sparkling new Mercedes. Not hard to see where the employee's pay reduction wound up....:grr:

So hell yeah, I fired off a letter to my rep asking where the hell our tax reduction was, since I hadn't seen a dime of it, that I thought all this "privatization" was a bad idea to begin with, but since they went through with it, they should make good on it.

Of course, I never heard a word back....:eyes:

[chknltl]

9. Yes of course, vote number 30. Thom Hartmann fan.

Screw the notions of Niel Boortz and his Free Trade crap! Screw the politicians who sell our democracy to the highest bidder then fight to reduce the taxes being paid out by that highest bidder and their ilk. That kind of thinking is what brought on the Great Depression! That kind of thinking is EXACTLY what underlies America's problems today. Capitalism unrestricted would remove corporate taxes entirely. Capitalism unrestricted has no problems with buying our government out from under us. Capitalism unrestricted can and will destroy the democracy it operates under.

[liberal N proud]

10. I wish we didn't need taxes but realize the value

Look what we can buy with them:









When we could be feeding the world