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Originally Posted by Slava
Most of this is simply irrelevant though. Sure some people get nothing back....the people who didn't pay in the first place. Anything above and beyond that is between them and their landlord.
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I still don't get the logic of the argument that renters don't pay property tax.
Let's assume for a minute that property taxes were 10 times what they are now. Then let's assume that the city is giving back all that property tax back (for whatever reason). Would you still say that renters should get nothing back because they didn't pay anything in the first place? Of course you wouldn't.
Just because the numbers are smaller doesn't change the situation.
I don't see why the city considering different options to give back the money to residents is appalling. Giving the money back directly is problematic, for reasons explained above. Putting money into transit, or community revitalization, etc IS giving money back to taxpayers, obviously more indirectly. None of the options being talked about really fail to give the money back to taxpayers.