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Originally Posted by Belmont Resident
Now I don’t know how many are, year round residents on the Island, but I can’t have a lot of sympathy for 2nd home owners, when so many can’t even afford one home.
And as far as I know we all know ahead of time what we are getting into before we sign on the dotted line.
We just got our tax bill for our 2nd home in Northern Maine and it was a staggering $1100.00. Yes that is eleven hundred. No complaints here, it’s a small price to pay for the solitude we enjoy during all of the summer holidays when the lake is a zoo. Not to mention the thousands of miles of snowmobile riding from our doorstep.
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It may be hard to have "sympathy" for people that for example own property on the Gov's Island, at the same time they like everyone else have to weigh the purchase of a piece of property against the total cost of ownership. It's a bit difficult to do that when the town clearly has a target on the prime property and on a whim can tax you right out of it? What's a reasonable figure, taxes double? triple? quadruple? in say 10 years? This is obscene no matter how "well to do" you may or may not be, especially when the perceived "rich" are hit hard as to keep the cost of living low for the rest. This is all out class warfare and it's wrong. I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination - I look at many of the mcmansions and shake my head wondering why anyone needs such a place, but I don't for one minute think they should be screwed because they have more than I do. Careful what you wish for, at some point there will be no more "rich" people to go after.
Nothing you get from the government is free, somebody had to pay for it through taxes. We have far to many expecting everything for nothing, well time to cut them off the gravy train and let them go out and earn a living just like the rest of us.