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LAND TRANSFER TAX
Where is it wrote in stone? I can't find it, could someone help me please! I've looked all over and it's just not there. Oh! Please someone! Please help me! Where does it say in the Tax Referendum Ballot Item it is to raise money for the Schools. It's just another WINK and NOD to rake in some cash. Oh it can be said, we meant well. But where is it on paper.
I think I can answer that, NOWHERE!
This is nothing more than a billboard scam by a bunch of greedy bureaucrats who want you as tax payers to feel good about digging just a little deeper. In the real world, it would boarder on fraud! Ho, hum, only in Swain County, right? Let's get real for once and quit trying to tell us that it's for the kids!
It will be the kids that will pay for it in the future. The majority of the adults here have what they have and will pass it to their children. That's when they'll get to ante up. "TRANSFER TAX", forget trying to get around the word "sale". You can't even give it away now.
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The Land Transfer Tax is merely another way for the Commissioners in our county to acquire additional money to use anyway they see fit. The children/educational system are being used as a device to get voters to agree to another tax. The problem is that there is no written agreement stating that this money is going to used for education only, and there lies the problem. If the referendum passes the commissioners will have the final say, and the taxpayers will be paying tax. It is a shame that our commissioners have had to stoop to using our children to acquire more money, if they would manage the funds we have alittle better maybe they wouldn't need as much money.
Another thing puzzles me , if the real estate marketing is dropping - How are they going to collect land transfer tax money? and if they don't get enough won't they just raise the other county taxes we all pay? It seems like the commissioners acquire the property for the new school without taxpayer approval- so I think they can do almost anything they see fit without our approval--
We need to vote for a change in commissioners in the next election-
Very
Concerned about Us All
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