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JustAnotherGen

(33,589 posts)
5. Not sure where you live
Tue May 8, 2018, 09:45 AM
May 2018

But State income and property - they (Feds) aren't giving us enough room to NOT be taxed twice.

Everything else to me? Just me? No big deal. I don't think we pay taxes on license plates in NJ, sales tax I don't pay on clothing, utility taxes - it is what it is, Library falls under township, mass transit (you talking airlines/airports), trash is included in my property taxes AS is my recycling and I'm on township water.

I'm thinking you are in Michigan - I've never lived there but I know this much -

If Phil Murphy was governor of your state - the folks of Flint would already have clean water - and the citizens of their state would have sacrificed to make it happen because we would be embarrassed that our OWN children in OUR state were without water.

I'm willing to pay more for my own state, and I would pay more to help out Flint - but I don't to give it to coal miners who refer to black New Jerseyans (myself included) as NFL - N*ggers for Life.

That said - If you are in Michigan - you would blow your brains out if you had our cost of living. We aren't far behind the Bay Area and New York City. And -we have the highest property taxes in America because we DO offer services to the last, the least, and the lost in our state.

That Flint water situation - that shit ain't right -but it's because Michigan folks were too selfish to fix the problem before it even started.

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