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Originally Posted by Don B.
New York City is not paying for things that the City of Phoenix is not, as a general rule.
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No. As a general rule, this is false.
I could go on all day about things that NYC provides than Phoenix likely does not.
Public hospitals, public housing, public city university (virtually free), free universal Pre-K, guaranteed right to shelter, rent subsidies for a zillion different classes of folks, guaranteed summer jobs for teens, senior centers/meals/subsidies up the wazoo, etc., etc.
Whether this makes any sense is another matter entirely. NYC goes overboard, but Phoenix is the opposite extreme.
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Originally Posted by Don B.
This is why a typical home in New York pays $15,000 per year in property taxes and in Arizona, $1,500.
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Totally false. NYC actually has fairly low property taxes. To pay $15,000 in NYC, especially for a single family house, would require a really, really fancy place.
There is no place in NY state where you pay $15,000 for something costing around the U.S. median (150k). Now there are some places in NY state with very high property taxes, but definitely not NYC.
These places are either 1. Wealthy suburbs of NYC that choose to tax themselves highly for gold-plated schools and services; or 2. Rustbelt cities in Western/Central NY state that have no choice.
So yeah, property taxes are high in Scarsdale or Buffalo (but for completely different reasons), but not in NYC.