If you don't want young employed people moving into your neighborhood, your tax burden has to grow proportionate to your retirement income, and if you don't want additional affordable housing in your city/county, you have to shoulder more of the burden because you're part of a smaller group.

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If you own your house outright, you are rich. Elderly people can defer property taxes until the sale of the house. We already tax incomes in a progressive way.

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The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

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Older people who want to pay lower property taxes should be able to downsize into an age-appropriate home that requires less upkeep without having to leave the communities where they raised their families; but they oppose that because they feel entitled to a fixed, unchanging neighborhood character.

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The capital gains tax has huge exemptions. If you’re paying it you are doing just fine.

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