"Larry" wrote in message
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DSK wrote in news:MkKCf.1437$fZ2.925
@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

The taxes on
our modest suburban house have more than doubled in the past
twelve years.


I always find it amusing that people who will live on a sailboat, which
less face it is just an RV with no wheels once you look past the nostalgia
factor, seem to have these huge tax lien houses, but would NEVER consider
living in my comfortable mobile home, which is nicer and has more room
than
a Hatteras 70 because it doesn't have two engine rooms.

When some yuppie asks me what yacht I have, I tell 'em an Oakwood 70 at
Evanston Marina...(c; "Oh, a 70! Very nice..." Many 70' yachts at City
Marina never leave their docks, either.

Just like a fine old boat that depreciates like mad, my Oakwood 70 paid
$128 to the county last year....but $89 of that was for garbage pickup so
the taxes on my house were quite cheap...and dropping. I don't give a
damn
what the millage rate is. Any millage rate times 0 is still 0...(c;


Ah - but perhaps the land it's on has some of these duplication
(exponential?) problems about tax bases?

L8R

Skip, homeless (well, sold them, not aboard yet)

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain