Comments on: Enhance Your Calm, Citizen http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2932 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Random Yak http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2932&cpage=1#comment-121191 Random Yak Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:20:21 +0000 http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2932#comment-121191 I prefer to think my property is not my own because I didn't make the land it sits on, and the one who did will still be around long after I've become part of it again. I also like to pretend that somewhere, the government of California managed not to mis-spend at least $10,000 during the course of this entire year....and I count all my taxes as going toward that particular expense (whatever it happened to be). Granted, that's entirely fiction, but at least it makes the process easier to bear. I prefer to think my property is not my own because I didn’t make the land it sits on, and the one who did will still be around long after I’ve become part of it again.

I also like to pretend that somewhere, the government of California managed not to mis-spend at least $10,000 during the course of this entire year….and I count all my taxes as going toward that particular expense (whatever it happened to be). Granted, that’s entirely fiction, but at least it makes the process easier to bear.

]]> By: David http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2932&cpage=1#comment-121186 David Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:39 +0000 http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2932#comment-121186 *heh* Saw parts of Demolition Man--enough to get the joke, but not enough to cause permanent brain damage... Property taxes. Yeh, used to burn me up, too, until we began setting <i>next</i> year's aside in an interest bearing account ahead of time. Makes it very, very slightly less painful. Well, that and having moved to an area where property taxes are not as onerous as some places. ;-) (There has to be <i>some</i> advantage to living in America's Third World County... ) But just stop and consider the wonderful gift of paying property taxes: they are just a reminder that YOUR property is NOT your own (even absent a mortgage). You only "rent" it from your local government. *heh* Saw parts of Demolition Man–enough to get the joke, but not enough to cause permanent brain damage…

Property taxes. Yeh, used to burn me up, too, until we began setting next year’s aside in an interest bearing account ahead of time. Makes it very, very slightly less painful.

Well, that and having moved to an area where property taxes are not as onerous as some places. ;-) (There has to be some advantage to living in America’s Third World County… )

But just stop and consider the wonderful gift of paying property taxes: they are just a reminder that YOUR property is NOT your own (even absent a mortgage). You only “rent” it from your local government.

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