How Taxilicious is New York?
You guys all thought ‘Puter was crazy or whining or both, complaining about New York and its confiscatory taxes.
Check this out. Actual facts and data that back up ‘Puter’s foaming-at-the-mouth rants! It’s a ranking titled “Property Taxes on Owner-Occupied Housing by County, 2007, Ranked by Taxes as Percentage of Home Value” put out by The Tax Foundation.
Of the top 10 worst counties in which to live in terms of property taxes as a percentage of home value, guess how many are in Upstate New York? Eight. That’s right. Fully 80% of property tax hell holes are in Upstate. It could be worse. Let’s take a gander at the top 25 tax hell holes. Wow, only seventeen of twenty-five. That’s only 68%. ‘Puter feels much better now. And this is before we even consider income and sales tax burdens.
Saint Anthony, patron saint of the poor, ora pro nobis. That’s him, above, for visualization purposes.
Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.
’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.
The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.
His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.
He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.
Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.
‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.