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There definitely are better taxes than property taxes. But, since it's a red state, they would probably replace it with a worse one. Or just debt.
It'll probably be replaced with sales tax increases. Sales taxes are very well-known to be regressive.
Or think of "low-tax" Texas, where every other road is privately operated and charges tolls out the ass.
Even ignoring privatized services, taxes in Texas are higher than California for the average person. It’s a total myth unless you belong to the upper class.
Hence why "low tax" is between quotation marks
“Every other road…” serious [citation needed] there. I live in San Antonio (you know 6th, largest city, metro of 2.2m people) and there’s not a single toll road. Austin, Dallas and Houston have a few but it’s by far not every other road. You can get around on 10, 35, 45 and the corresponding ring roads just fine.
Also the property taxes here are quite high compared to a lot of other states, but as such there’s no state income tax.
I live in Austin and they’ve built a toll road bypass to the interstate, added toll lanes to loop 1, and now they’re adding them to 183.
Lt. Gov Dan Patrick is on a crusade to end property taxes and replace them with...🤷♀️
This would be great if it eliminated property tax for primary residences or something like that. Everything else is a handout to the wealthy.
Big A Libertarian Walks into a Bear energy.
Fun fact. That was in Grafton, NH. NH doesn't have sales tax. Instead, there's a correspondingly high property tax.
At least they get good value for it. The schools aren't terrible, and the roads are better than the much wealthier state of MA right nearby.
Does North Dakota have the same tourism industry that New Hampshire has?
Definitely not. There's Teddy Roosevelt National Park, which is gorgeous, but it doesn't attract nearly as much tourism of all the stuff that's four hours south...
South Dakota has Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, Mammoth Site, Black Hills National Forest, Deadwood and Sturgis, a couple good private zoos in Reptile Gardens and Bear Country. All of that stuff is within a 1 hour drive of Rapid City, which has plenty of good hotels and restaurants and just generally what you'd expect from a modern midsize city. Rapid City is honestly worth the trip for anyone, but If you're a real outdoorsy person then you could easily enjoy a month out there. Oh and then not that far away (relatively speaking - 2 hours drive) is Devil's Tower in Wyoming.
So no... NoDak is comparatively sparse. And they probably like it that way.
Gonna get even more sparse when they eliminate running water and sewage service.
NoDak is comparatively sparse. And they probably like it that way.
And therein lies the problem. New Hampshire gets away with it because they have money coming in from people visiting the state (and the state owning the liquor stores).
Another red welfare state making it worse
I'm pretty sure that this isn't a Democrat-Republican issue.
goes looking
Yeah.
Nebraska and Texas have some of the highest effective property tax rates in the country.
Hawaii has one of the lowest, and California's pretty low too.
There's definitely regionality -- the Midwest has (mostly) high, and the western Great Plains states low -- but it doesn't really map to Democrat-Republican status.
But you have to compare it in context.
In Canada, Alberta has no sales tax because they make so much money from oil. In normal conditions and with a working government that is not idiotic, such a system could work. However they have a stupid government that only does this to buy votes so when oil drops they drown
So, in this context, does North Dakota have an alternative revenue stream to compensate?
they have a stupid government that only does this to buy votes so when oil drops they drown
Remember, Peter Lougheed first won the region for the conservatives on a platform of fiscal resilience through diversification and using oil money specifically to fund the development and growth of people and sectors currently ignored. The ignored people liked this.
Then the party, after winning, gutted the plans.
So, it's not like this is their plan. It's their plan, despite alternative plans winning in the polls to get them the region, which were then gutted in favour of their plan. Said another way, they could have been better, the voters wanted better, they didn't get better, the voters didn't bury them for it. They're the "stop hitting yourself" of voters.
This is a terrible idea, property taxes are better than pretty much all of the alternatives
They're replacing it with Land Value Tax, right? Right?..
Or sales tax, or something else. High taxation and misuse of taxes is bad, but taxes themselves support the infrastructure everyone uses. So if they get rid of this, something else is going to have to take its place unless the property tax was way too high.
I thought we’ve seen what happens when you don’t have blended tax sources.
But surely, this time, it will work?!
The roads will take 10 years to turn into alabama, but they will.
Nope, North Dakota has snow and ice, so it won't even take 5.
Whatever they will come up with will be regressive and mostly affect poor people.
Property taxes are the base funding for numerous local government services, including sewers, water, roads, jails, deputies, school building construction and teacher salaries — “pretty much the most basic of government,” said North Dakota Association of Counties Executive Director Aaron Birst.
I guess if that's really what they want to defund, then go for it, but don't expect any federal dollars.
Once the most socialist states in the country...how far we have fallen. It is a politically sad place now.
Huh, didn't know that they still have a state run bank up there.
https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/dakota-datebook-archive/2022-05-22/socialism-in-north-dakota