New Taxes proposed for Nassau County (school, income, property tax)

[Pequaman]

I hate taxes as much as all the other free market people out there. But before they think of new ways to tax overstretched homeowners, let's come up with some tax ideas of our own to even the playing field. Maybe a politician or 2 will see this and run with it. If smokers could pay 100% tax on a pack of cigarettes, I'm sure we could raise the price for most products/services.

Here's a few:

1. Landscaper Tax
2. Massage Parlor Tax


Please don't say "tax the free leaf bags" , let's be serious here.
Fight fire with fire.

[ovi8]

tanning
alcohol
personal property (like cars in CT - ie. a $30k car would be ~$400/yr)

... only if it will alleviate the general/school taxes.

[Gpsma]

axe body spray tax

[AK210]

air tax
sunlight tax
moon tax
rain tax


this is all useless

[Pool0890]

a 50% income tax on school teachers with the funds going into a school property tax reduction fund

[Johninwestbury]

Well the landscaper tax could be used to fund bus service, since the ppl hiring them jam up the buses.

[sean sean sean sean]

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I'm all for the landscaper and massage parlor tax. Perhaps we can also tax any aircraft flying in Nassau County's airspace at under 7,000ft?

[Johninwestbury]

That last one aint a bad idea. I bet things would get real quiet around here.

[Pequaman]

Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean

:
I'm all for the landscaper and massage parlor tax. Perhaps we can also tax any aircraft flying in Nassau County's airspace at under 7,000ft?

"yo grams, I had the best tossed salad the other night" .... lol
anyways, I know your kidding with the airplane tax lol. I really wouldn't want to tax anyone without representation but sometimes you gotta resort to this crap. I feel guilty even proposing it. I don't know how unions & politicians sleep at night raiding people's bank accounts the way they do so effectively.

The only thing I can think of is both of these professions (Landscaper/Massage business) are highly correlated with illegals, undocumented workers...cash businesses that mostly earn $ tax free to begin with.

All other modes of combating the ridiculous taxes have failed for decades now. Once we start building momentum to battle it, it gets shot down by various forces. So like Einstein said, doing teh same thing over and over again and expecting diff results=insanity..yada yada.

Originally Posted by rh71

tanning
alcohol
personal property (like cars in CT - ie. a $30k car would be ~$400/yr)

... only if it will alleviate the general/school taxes.

Alcohol kills more people than any other product I can think of (except maybe Raytheon JDAMS ?). As much as I like to drink on occasion, this is definitely fair considering smokers pay BIG taxes to NYS for the privilege of being able to smoke. Tanning I agree with too, that would be mega $$ on LI.
Personal prop, eh, not feeling that one. Good ideas though.

Nassau County should be jumping on these before the State and Federal Gov't impose them first! Lashing out to our draconian leaders about the ridiculous taxes has proved to be a waste of time.

If we don't rein in the out-of-control spending going on by the state, our only solution is to find taxes that make sense. If we don't do something fast, the bond market will eventually cut us off from funding and then all hell breaks loose. They're already sniffing weakness in Cali. If Cali goes, we are 2 or 3 on the list. I can see this happening in the next 12 months (maybe sooner depending on macroeconomic events).

[mr.mrs.b.i]

In my opinion, the only thing that would solve our problem is for the NY State gov to completely re-do taxes and spread it out more even amongst all of NY.