Soon, this will be all of us
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh.
Greenburgh doesn’t want her to leave, either.
The town is pushing a program that would let seniors work part-time, for $7 an hour, to help pay off some of their property taxes.
“People shouldn’t have to sell their house, move away to a place with less taxes, leave behind their family and friends,” said Town Supervisor Paul Feiner.
The proposal has caused a stir in Greenburgh, a town of 90,000 in Westchester County, which has the nation’s third-highest homeowner property taxes. The plan would be unusual if not unique in New York, but similar programs are considered successes in Colorado, Massachusetts, South Carolina and elsewhere.
This is the logical extension of Liberal tax and big daddy government policies. Instead of making property taxes realistic and affordable, the town will allow, in their generosity (sarcasm alert!), senior citizens to work off their point of a gun barrel debt to the collective by working for, you got it! the government.
And the rest of us are next.
Crossposted at Right Wing News, where the taxes are always low.
Seniors Work To Pay Property Taxes…
Soon, this will be all of us GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there……
Is forced labor on the elderly the same as the democrats favorite, slavery, of the past?
Homes that were originally purchased for $25,000 now worth $300,000; big difference. It would make more sense to allow a blanket adjustment for anyone that has reached retirement age. Way to respect our elders, huh?
It’s funny how the town is offering less then what is the actual NY state min wage, too!