This is my property tax bill. It’s for a condo. I am 82 years old. My children never went to these schools and in any case they have all been out of school over thirty years.
I don’t have a problem paying these taxes, especially school taxes. I don’t see it as unfair. My age and the fact I haven’t had a mortgage for fifteen years is irrelevant.
One comprehensive ranking by WalletHub has shown New Jersey near 3rd or 4th best in the nation based on academic performance, safety, funding, teacher credentials, class size, graduation rates, and more.
Other reports rank New Jersey as the best or second-best state for education in overall pre-K through 12 performance — including strong test scores, graduation rates, and college readiness.
Taxes are well spent and in my town we have great parks and sports fields, our roads are taken care of and snow removed and it has nothing to do with how old you are.
This is nonsense, short – sighted and quite frankly ignorant.
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A problem with high property taxes in some towns is exorbitant retiree benefits for school teachers, prison guards, policemen, etc. Much more generous pensions and healthcare than other retirees.
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Al Lindquist
never heard someone say; “hey, one good reason to move to the Garden State are those great schools”. People voting with their feet tell me something.
I believe there is an exodus from NJ–but folks with kids are heading to red states for lower cost housing–improving schools (check out MS)–lower taxes–common sense government. If that was a NJ community with that road sign (last one) I wonder about the schools–I thought pulse was not spelled “PULES of a nation.”
yes, you hang on the sites that I find a waste of time with all the foolishness associated with it–some of us don’t need sites we just listen; “men can have babies”–“MAGA folks should not be served at restaurants/hotels”–“hospitals should refuse patient care to ICE agents”–“all of us white folks are living on stolen land” well, moron Billi Englsh, you just built a mansion in CA for $23 million? shame on you! —“defund the cops and while you are at it ICE also”–who needs sites when the dummies are right in front of us and they have names and love to pontificate.
now, if you want to pay in the range of $14,000 a year in property taxes then go for it–personally I do not care–folks can live where they want and do as they please–if anyone is concerned about taxes then vote for candidates of your choice–raise hell at the town meeting–petition the state legislature
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Would you feel the same if your school system was below the national average and you didn’t have nice parks and athletic fields. In other words, the taxes weren’t commensurate with what government was providing.
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I would feel it was time to hold the people running the show responsible. There is no “government” as a thinking entity, there are people doing a job. In the case of property taxes, it is local friends and neighbors, people we elect to school boards, to town councils. It’s when we vote or not for bonds to fund schools or build a new firehouse, etc.
To say GOVERNMENT did this or didn’t do that makes no sense. It’s all people.
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