Squeezing

Squeezing

Already feeling a squeeze,

when property taxes are predicted

to

Rise,

not be

Reformed

(still hoping).

If all

Citizens

are to share the

Cost,

then property owners

should not bear the brunt

Alone.

Somehow the voters allow

this warped complex

System

of

Statewide Property Taxes,

that are locally

collected

at varying times of the year

and enforced

using tax sales in as little as 6 months late

(or not, at the discretion

 of one person in each town)

Income sensitivity

is another challenging

math experiment.

Only parts are income sensitive

and the others

are not.

So after the awful

hurricane damage

I understand some have

 little to pay taxes on.

It is just hard to explain

why no one saw

my suffering

when I asked for abatement.

Now when my taxes might be raised

and another non property owning VT resident

does not pay a tax,

and my property

ownership

is

further Eroded,

do I have a standing to say

this is an unfair hardship

to property owners?

How can we reform

the VT property tax system

to stop all this

Squeezing?