Amerika

Some things defy explanation, such as how consumers do not realize that taxes on corporations and the wealthy simply get passed down through higher prices. Or how property taxes raise rent, or how free medical care for some means more expensive medical care for everyone else.

Most likely voters make themselves stupid by refusing to look at any significant issues because those are controversial and risky to make a decision on. The voters run away from controversy and responsibility.

In this light, the problem in every election is not the people demanding something insane, but everyone else who allows them to get away with it because everyone else wants to avoid controversy and risk. The crazies take over because the non-crazies do not want to get involved.

This gets us to the point where a great, freedom-loving pioneer nation turns into a cash cow for taxes that fund diversity so the power structure can remain intact permanently:

According to the Census Bureau, more than 300,000 U.S. residents moved out of Harris County than moved into it over the last decade. Last year that number hit an all-time high of just over 43,000. This Texas A&M Real Estate Center study last year found that about 65% of those leaving Harris County moved to a surrounding county and that “housing costs and quality of life” were among the principal motivations for the move. They also found that homeownership was far more prevalent in the surrounding counties.

Harris County’s population has remained more or less stable because those moving out have been replaced by immigrants moving into the County from other countries. The study also found, however, that the international immigrants moving into the County had substantially lower incomes than those leaving the County.

All of this makes the Commissioners’ decision to relentlessly increase property taxes to the highest levels in the County’s history even more baffling. Instead of attempting to stem the outflow of residents, they are making living in Harris County even more unaffordable by increasing the tax burden on middle-income families trying to own their own home.

Some will burn the world down to rule over the ashes. Others simply take whatever they want because they can bully ordinary people out of the way with a Heckler’s Veto, and when everything collapses they shrug and move on to some new fascination of profit.

Eventually they kill the goose that laid golden eggs. In Texas, they inverted the formula of lower property cost by kicking up the property taxes because normies do not pay attention to the numbers in their monthly loan statement and do not realize that half of what they are paying is property tax.

(Voters in fact often take pride in ignorance of such issues, while posturing that being concerned about money and taxes is like being greedy and therefore, only bad people do it. Just pay it and move on, they say.)

However, people have noticed that the cycle described above goes only one way: bad money drives out good. When property taxes get too high, diversity surges in and promptly reduces the values of all of the homes, which enables them to survive but starves the city of income.

Not surprisingly, Texas property taxes have finally become an issue for voters concerned with the future:

As Texas voters feel pressure from the rising cost of living, Texas Republicans appear eager to pursue more property tax breaks. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said last year he wants to extend the senior homestead exemption on school property taxes to people age 55 and up, while boosting the exemption offered to every homeowner. Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott has proposed eliminating school property taxes for all homeowners, which has sparked fairness questions over who will ultimately be on the hook for Texas property taxes.

As always, power is a zero-sum game and there is no free money; like energy it comes from somewhere, can be converted or passed on, but never destroyed or created. You can print more money, but that just divides the value of all money by more units, creating devaluation (“inflation”).

Most of these property taxes go toward the cost of schools, which since they are legally obligated to take the children of illegal aliens, have doubled in size over the past thirty years and quintupled the number of administrators. Schooling is now a big industry with big bucks in it.

However, results have been bad, because when you import a bunch of people who are not Anglo-Saxons, their ability to use Anglo-Saxon education for positive ends is not contiguous wih the past, and therefore education gets dumbed down and you get lots of administrators to process paperwork.

Amazing as it is, people never figure this stuff out until it is too late and all the money has already been stolen. But that is what happens when you take pride in ignorance rather than realizing the costs get passed on down to the consumer every time without exception.

Tags: devaluation, inflation, property taxes, texas