Radio Personality With A Cold Heart

[AllanY2525]

Some excellent points, Micky...retirees who still own their own homes are one of
the few sources of tax revenue in the city/county, especially with the lack of
jobs that pay enough for folks to live on.

With the real estate market being as sluggish as it is in the area, these folks
would have a difficult time selling their homes and would not get anywhere
near what they have put into them over the years. 

Many of these older people are just barely hanging on financially, with their
fixed retirement incomes....raising their property taxes would be like the
"straw that broke the camel's back."

[Micky]

Shows how ignorant he is.  We should value our senior citizens like other countries do.

The seniors in Youngstown had a difficult life, paid their dues to society, worked very hard through difficult times, and enabled the "gimmes" to get what they have today. 

Most seniors that I know would never be able to afford to give up the homes that they've paid for in order to move somewhere else and take on additional debt.  Even if they moved into apartments, the rent increases along with utilities and they can't afford it. 

[Rick Rowlands]

Yep.  Fast Freddie didn't earn any points with me.    Probably a product of the public schools where they don't teach that private property rights and overtaxation was one of the reasons the revolution happened in the first place.

[jay]

Did anyone hear the comment by Freddie on the radio this week during a discussion about senior citizens' opposition to property taxes?  He basically stated that if senior citizens couldn't afford to pay for an increase in property taxes, they should sell their homes and move somewhere else.