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The States: Mad Scientist Laboratories of Democracy

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I think it's just the scale used. Everything above $2,000/yr gets the same color blue. This site says the median property tax is $3,000/yr, and floats between 1.42% and 1.80% of home value with an average around 1.76%. The Lake Michigan side of the state is likely more expensive because it's more vacation property, the couple dozen counties closest to Illinois are more expensive because, well, Illinois, and the LaCrosse area is likely expensive because of the proximity to the Twin Cities.

Farm land is only slightly cheaper likely because of the acreage that is included with those homes.



For me in Illinois, the seven counties that make up Chicagoland are pricey for property taxes, averaging $5,000/yr. My tax rate is closer to only $3,000/yr because of the city I live in, but the neighboring city (literally right across the highway from me) jumps to $6,000/yr in taxes. A co-worker who lives five minutes away in another neighboring city (and neighboring county) pays $13,000/yr.

This (http://www.co.kane.il.us/Treasurer/ptax.htm) is from the county right down the street from me.
 
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For Michigan's 92nd district State House seat, Republicans aren't even trying any more. This district is solidly blue.
 
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Perhaps the fever is breaking.

In election after election tonight, Brownback supporting conservatives found themselves going down in flames, with incumbents being thrown out of office in races from Johnson County to Reno County, and moderate Republicans — some recently former (D)s — doing the tossing. Whether it was the senate or the house, nothing could stop the voter refusal of the Brownback plan.

Gone are Greg Smith and Jeff Melcher. Gone is Terry Bruce, Senate leader, who had imagined himself as senate president this term.

Bye, Bye, Bye. In the end, moderate Republicans did not just drive the bus over the competition; they crushed those on the inside of the Brownback plan.

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The damage didn’t just extend to the Kansas House & Senate, though. Gone is Tim Huelskamp, the US representative from the 1st district.
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Kansas is the crown jewel of Movement Conservatism, where they finally had a chance to demonstrate their Biblical Paradise of invisible hand and theocratic iron boot. The result was of course a complete fireball.

People may have finally figured out the conservative emperor has no clothes.
 
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joecct said:
This is the house we lived in from 1954 -1967

My parents bought it for ~$20,000 and sold it for $29,900. It is now worth something in the high $400,000's. It has been remodeled. The driveway has been raised to street level (ours had about a 3' - 4' grade drop to the garage. It made it interesting when a monsoon rolled in before we installed a drain line to the back yard. Also, somebody raised the roof on the right side. All we had was an attic). Taxes are around $13K.

This is our second house, which the family owned from 1967 - 2009. My parents bought it for $50,500 and my Mom sold it for about $735K. Only structural thing that changed was vinyl siding was added in the mid 80s. Taxes here are almost $15K. BTW, Dick Nixon's office was right down the street.
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JFC. $735k for a 3,100-sqft house on less than an acre?
 
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Yeah, that's insane. I live in a 2,300-sqft, 0.25-acre house for $250k. I pay something like $2,500 in taxes.
 
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Yeah, that's insane. I live in a 2,300-sqft, 0.25-acre house for $250k. I pay something like $2,500 in taxes.
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1300 / .33 / $239k / $2700

But I also live 15 miles from the nearest grocery store.
 
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I live about 3 from the nearest half-grocery store (a regular Target) and probably 8-10 from the nearest real grocery store. Unfortunately my city doesn't believe in commercial zoning despite being half inside the 694 loop. I'm only half-joking.

Some day I'll retire to a much smaller house on the lake 20 minutes from any store.
 
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JFC. $735k for a 3,100-sqft house on less than an acre?
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It's Bergen County New Jersey. Go to Upper Saddle River (next town West) and the price jumps by $250-500K.

It's no different in the DC suburbs with some notable exceptions.

Location, Location location.
 
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joecct said:
According to Common Core and others involved in eddicating our youth, $70 million / 3 = FOOTBALL!!!.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/22/texas-high-schools-budget-busting-stadium-to-cost-70m.html
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As with pro sports venues that can cost upwards of $1 billion, much of the sales pitch for the high school stadium was about its value as a catalyst for development. Local officials believe it will bring restaurants and retail shops to the town, some 37 miles north of Dallas.
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For high school football? Even in Texas?
 
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Pregame and post game meals. If you have a decent barbecue or pizza place, people will come.
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Sure - what, 7 times per year?

There's no way high school football supports any additional restaurants over what could survive there anyway.
 
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