‘Holy Kapow!, Waco

Radio Legendary ^ | 6/9/2018

[Elderberry]

George Horsley drives to Austin each day to practice his profession – that of a property appraiser with a lot of experience serving the McLennan County Appraisal District.

Those days are long gone.

He says it’s the best thing that ever happened to him.

Tomorrow, on Sunday, June 10, he and Gordon Harriman, a professional property manager whose great grandfather founded Crawford Austin, an operation that today owns “right at” 1,000 parcels of commercial property in the environs of Waco, Jerusalem-on-the-Brazos, will join us at RadioLegendary to rag chew the beaudacious efforts of the industrial establishment of this community to raise taxes – once again – by leaps and bounds by simply declaring folks’ stores, manufacturing plants, shopping malls, rental housing – and the like – is, well, ah, 17 percent more valuable than it was a year ago.

Residential properties?

They’re considered about 12 percent more in their appraised value.

Onwards.

So, what happened during the ensuing year?

The Attorney General, his staff, the Courts, and the legal establishment not only nationwide, but worldwide, handed he McLennan County District Attorney his ass on a silver platter when a jury of twelve split 11 to one for acquittal in one of the most ridiculous displays of poor judgment ever to grace a criminal court.

In five weeks of tedious drama, the chosen 12 listened in bored disbelief while Abel Reyna and lead prosecutor Michael Jarrett put on tepid, opinionated testimony by “experts” on motorcycle gangs that had not one scintilla of bearing on the question: Did Dallas Bandido Jake Carrizal “engage” in organized crime when he and his Chapter of 1%’er bikers rolled into the parking lot of a trendy theme breastaurant located in the roadside sprawl of a shopping mall for folks with a lot of disposable income

[Chode]

preemptive taxation... gotta pay off those lawsuits somehow

[WildHighlander57]

You’re right, only 10% a year.

[Hatteras]

Waco? We need more shiplap!

[Elderberry]

Unlike residential homestead appraisals, which are capped at ten percent, appraisal increases for commercial property taxes are not limited by law.

[T-Bone Texan]

This article males no more sense if you read it while high on pot.

[tbw2]

A property appraiser whose job is to challenge the double digit property valuation increases the state uses to get around the capped limits on increases in property tax RATES.

We’ve been hit with it, too. Your property taxes go up the maximum 3% per year through the staggered intervals to get around the law, but the other years, they say your property’s value went up 10% or more, so give us more money.

The writer is trying to tell the horror in story form and gets too abstract.