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SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
6. People is dumb
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 01:19 PM
Dec 2017

I worked for a county years ago. We had trouble explaining to people that in order to get the homeowner's 4% assessment on their houses instead of the 6% that applied to rental units they had to come to the Courthouse and apply.
It was amazing how many people came in and said they had not applied because it wasn't worth the trip for just a 2% difference, but their tax bill was 50% than neighbors with comparable priced houses.
I really, really wanted to tell them that the 50% difference was the County's Stupidity Tax.

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