I am no fan of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but her idea for a renter’s tax rebate is a fair one.

Who do you think that landlords passed their 18 percent tax increase onto? The renters.

We do not get any tax breaks, nor can we deduct our payments from our income.

The only reason we don’t own our homes is that many of us are just getting by while our rents continue to rise. We deserve a break, too.

The Post just doesn’t get it.

Kevin Myers
Staten Island

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Over the past several years, rent in New York City has shot up, commensurate with the increase in property taxes and tax assessments.

If you mix this information with some old-fashioned common sense, you’d conclude that the cause of the rent increase is that property owners are passing off part of their additional tax burdens to their tenants.

Thus, owners and renters share the property-tax burden.

Next time, before you question the integrity of a politician who’s trying to help the city’s struggling renters, first crawl out from the rock you live under and then apply common sense.

Benjamin Richards
Brooklyn

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Don’t renters pay taxes?

Why give landlords a $400 tax rebate, but not a renter?

If I was a renter in New York City, I’d be out there applauding Quinn.

Landlords can raise rents, receive a tax rebate and get a tax break – what do renters get? They get higher rents and a box of receipts.

Giving them something back is only fair.

Bret Wallach
Hicksville

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I’ve seen few Post editorials more tunnel-visioned than “Quinn’s Gift.”

Renters in New York City were also hurt by the 2003 property-tax increase, both directly and indirectly.

Directly, because landlords passed the costs on to renters. Indirectly, because stores passed on the hike in property taxes to them as consumers in the form of higher prices.

I am the last person to defend the ultra-liberal tax-and-spend City Council speaker, but why is it that The Post is automatically against any politician who stands up for the working-class grunt?

Nat Weiner
The Bronx