My town did similar.
Our homes all dropped about $100,000 in value since last town valuation (2006). My neighbors took solace, thinking they would have a reduced property tax bill. I LMAO.
And of course the town simply raised the rate per thousand to get same (or more) revenue.
You don’t think the hacks would ever make cuts?
A couple years ago, here in Summit County, Ohio, they dropped the value of my house byb$1,500,,,, and raised the value of my lot by $10,000.
That happened to us here in Jefferson Parish, LA. Our local newspaper had a big headline a few weeks ago saying that property values were at 2004 levels, yet our property tax bill that we received shortly thereafter had gone up.
And again I ask, will there ever be a day when the multitude of lazy, apathetic, ignorant, brain-dead citizenry of this country figure out that liberals are the cause of this continuing calamity?!
Ah naivte is a wonderful thing to watch. Of course the costs for government services go up when there is the expectation that more money is available. That is how it works, and that is why the government is such a lousy customer on behalf of the public. The guys in charge were put in charge to keep increasing the take and the dole out to those on the take. It is everywhere in every transaction every government engages in. And now the jig is up because we ran out of money 8 years ago, and now have run out our credit line as well.
Chicago elects democrats. They are getting what they deserve.
Unfortunately, Pima County (where I live) elects democrats too...but many of the democrats don’t own property.
Since the long-term Obamugabe plan is to turn the government into the landlord, this makes abundant sense. A small part of the people won’t be able to pay the tax, then there will be a lien, etc. with the property finally seized.
Maybe a large corporation or union will then administer the properties —some entity that is backer of The System.
This is all about transferring private wealth into public coffers —witness GE, GM. etc.
Same deal.
EVERYONE is rich - in Obamaland! Whoohoo!
Yea, how’s that hope and change crap working out for you?
Republicans are doing the same thing all over the country. When it comes to the greed of govt there are no political parties. There are only grasping corrupt politicians no matter what names they call themselves.
there is no limit to the greed of public servants.
public parasites would be more accurate.
Here in Texas, both property values and taxes continue to rise. Every year, but one, of the past two decades my taxes have risen over 10+% (fuzzy math and rounding up over the “legal” limit). There hasn’t been a lull in construction here and more out of staters and illegals are moving in.
This same controversy is huge here in Aiken County, SC.
Properties were recently revalued and many, many, tax payers are very upset. County officials have held three meeting with tax payers. All were filled to overflowing with pissed off people.
If you want to protest your assessment, you normally have 90 days to do it. The outcry is so overwhelming this time that officials have extended the protest period an additional 90 days.
http://www.aikenstandard.com/star_news/News-0915-REASSESSMENT
http://www.aikenstandard.com/local/0919-county-council-preview
http://www.aikenstandard.com/None/Edit-0825-EDITORIAL
http://www.aikenstandard.com/Editorial/0824-Garideau-column
http://www.aikenstandard.com/local/0823-reassessment-questions
Imagine: Your stock price goes down, and your dividend goes UP.
YEAH RIGHT. But for Uncle Sam, that’s a reality.
Did a government program end up not working? In the private sector, you STOP that program. In the public sector that’s a reason to fund it MORE.
And because they’re liberals fleecing liberals, they just passively sit there and politely say ‘it doesn’t seem right’.
If it were conservatives doing this they’d be organizing riot squads and calling for resignations and recall drives.
They unfortunately deserve this, they elected leadership that said to solve our problems, we will greatly increase taxes on people and business, and greatly increase our borrowing to pay off certain debts, today.