By Brian Massie, A Watchman on the Wall
Here is additional insight from a Lake County patriot on the continued deceptions by Ohio leaders. The lies, deceptions and betrayals by the socialists in Ohio’s State legislature never stop.
Remembering E-Check in the 1990’s
By a Lake County Patriot
The defenders of the property tax status quo claim abolishing them will cost us more. This sounds like the same fallacious reasoning used to support E-Check in the 1990s.
To comply with the Clean Air Act, the Voinovich administration had two options: E-Check or reformulated gasoline. The reformulated gasoline would supposedly cost more, so they went with E-Check. But they apparently assumed the costs of both options would be uniformly felt on all sectors of society.
However, E-Check has a severe adverse impact on poor people, who out of necessity drive older cars, which are less likely to pass. These people would be deprived of transportation if their cars failed the tests. With no car, they would lose their jobs, thus being driven deeper into poverty. I’m sure most poor people would rather pay more for gasoline than be deprived of a car.
(Also absent from the economic considerations were the constitutional issues, specifically, the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments [searches without warrants, assuming everyone is guilty until they prove themselves innocent, and taking of private property without compensation].)
Similarly, property taxes have the most severe adverse impact on those most vulnerable: seniors, poor people, those on fixed incomes. Yes, renters are impacted too, as landlords pass the taxes on to them through higher rents.
And, these taxes are absolutely medieval, a remnant of the Middle Ages. You are allowed to reside on land, which actually belongs to the king, as long as you pay tribute to the king. Stop paying, and the king kicks you off.
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