(10-14-2022, 06:54 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-14-2022, 02:49 PM)copycat Wrote: Help me understand this statement and allow me to elaborate the question.  My wife and I purchased our dream home in 1997 for a tidy sum back then of 110k.  Through self control, prudent spending, and personal home improvements we were able to pay off our 30 year mortgage in less than 15 years.  We did this while living on one income and banking/doubling our mortgage payments.  Since then we have invested in personal improvements and upgrades that satisfy us.  As such the property value has quadrupled.  As we enter our retirement years there will be a day under your statement that we will no longer be able to afford the taxes on something we worked a lifetime to achieve by doing everything right.  We have paid taxes on every board, nail and drop of paint on our home.  Yet you want us to pay even more because we had the audacity to pay off our mortgage early (saving interest payments) because we upgraded our purchase into a personal paradise.  Punishing people for being responsible is, nor will ever be a conservative principle.  I await your clarification.

You're in FL right? Not LA? Not NYC?