Maryland property taxes aren't that bad...

[jazz lady]

compared to New Jersey:

MONTGOMERY, N.J. (AP) — Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end.
She sent her children through Montgomery's well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years.

But her property taxes have climbed 56% since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year — a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3% a year.

"Oh, it's terrible," Lehman said.

Despite efforts by governors and lawmakers to do something about it, New Jersey has the highest property taxes in America — a burden that is alarming young couples and retirees alike and deepening public cynicism in a state with a long and rich history of graft and self-dealing.

The average property owner in the Garden State pays about $6,000 a year in property taxes, twice the national average.

Bend over, it's New Jersey.

 

[Pete]

How else are they going to be able to afford the smothering costs of supporting all the crack addicts and welfare queens in Newark?

 

[chernmax]

And the cost for continued search efforts for Jimmy Hofa...

 

[oldman]

N.J. is broke and the only way the new governor can save it is by taxes at this point. 7% sales tax now. And it isn't only Newark that is down in the dumps. My small hometown in the south has turned into a haven for immigrants. It makes Waldorf appear as a model city as far as crime goes. The prosecutor sued the city last year to get new facilities and a larger staff to keep up with crime - and he won. N.J. is contemplating turning the highways over to private companies because they don't have the money to keep them up. I'd like to move back there for my remaining years but I couldn't afford to pay for my beer and cigs, much less afford a house in a nice neighborhood. SOMD is good right now.

 

[Vince]

If you think property taxes in Jersey are bad, you should see the price of homes. That's why they buy across the river in Pa. They save alot of money and commute.

 

[vraiblonde]

How else are they going to be able to afford the smothering costs of supporting all the crack addicts and welfare queens in Newark?

For real - where do they think that money comes from?