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To: ajtj99 who wrote (64450)	3/14/2007 3:15:29 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

wow. person works their whole life to provide for family and look forward to retirement. Most likely they are in the same home they first bought, now they are on fixed income , soc sec pension no pension and you think living in their home for forty fifty years they should be kicked out because they cannot afford taxes. Because younger folks came into the area , population exploded and caused huge school building and those on the school boards want swimming, football, gym, baseball, hockey, etc etc. and these elderly people who paid taxes on the house all those years and who may have no other savings should get out of their house because school taxes have gone out of sight. and we use realestate taxes to support schools vs income tax. huh. In a lot of cases you are destroying everything these people worked for in retirement. moving to another place is not want they want , most would like to stay in their home. yet, you cannot get the majority of people to vote to switch from realestate tax to income taxes for schools. still beats me why not? seems like the fair thing to do. or increase sales tax. Of course this couple can get a reverse mortgage to handle taxes i expect and they may not be aware of it or the charges are so high to process a reverse mortgage it makes them dizzy. i guess we should just throw them out.. they served their time.