Taxpayers Livid in Davis [138% Increase in Property Taxes]

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 | LORI BUTTARS

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Oooh yeah. I'd give up 5 years of my life to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office for a day. A fly that understands English, mind you.

[Revelation 911]

I'm a few miles away and for me a $170,000 house commands about $800 a year in taxes.

Im several thousand away in NY - my 130k home runs about $2000.00 in Town and County taxes and another 2k in School taxes. No disrespect meant brother - but cry me a river

P.S. ...........hey - stop laughing !!

[tom paine 2]

I will.

[RJL]

The point on the news was not that the county part went up 138%, but that the total went up 138%.

From the article:
a hike that would more than double the county's portion of property taxes from $110.09 to $262.32 on an average home with a market value of $163,000.

Maybe it's different in Utah, here in Minnesota, property taxes include, city taxes, county taxes, School taxes and other smaller taxes in the property taxes.

[fogarty]

Here's what it said, more or less:

Somebody needs to just shoot the politicians and let their bodies lie in the street for the nation to view.

[Sundog]

Try this article out from Deseret News which explains the relationship between the total taxes and the part that would be going up 138%.

Davis County's proposed 138 percent property-tax increase.

cheers.

p.s. I hear Ventura's leaving a deficit behind in MN.

[agrace]

Wow, and I thought we had it rough here in NJ. We pay close to 5k for about the same market value.

[Sundog]

In all fairness, I will grant you this:

Every newspaper article and print report I can find and access defines the tax increase as specifically "the county portion". All the stories are parroting the same reporting done at the meeting, where one component would be going up. (Reporting the total tax burden and the increase in that would have made the story less sensational, you understand.) I may have therefore misrepresented the total in my earlier posts.

Even so, the property taxes in Utah are still far lower than typical US rates.

Cheers.

[galt-jw]

The dissidents saw a conspiracy around every corner for how the all-Republican commission has handled the tax increase

what a shock, rinos who are for big govt, tax n spend.

[galt-jw]

The way Bush spends taxpayers money he would be more likely to call them and say 'Good Job!'

no kidding.

[ASOC]

Dude - right on.
Bigger sanity check
I live in Anchorage Ak, in a house worth WAY less than 168K and pay $300 a month to the city in property taxes!
Wanna trade?
Oh, BTW, it gets kinds cold here in the winter - oh, and dark

And yes, I would rather have a sales tax than a property tax.

HOO-ah

[For the Unborn]

The so-called republicans in Utah are also proposing tax hikes, statewide. I think that some of them have been in power too long and think that Utahns will always vote republican. One day soon, they could be in for a very rude surprise.

[FITZ]

In Texas, you are talking about $6000-$7000, if not more.

It's hard to believe people are complaining about $2000 to $3000 a year because Texas is much higher like you said. Every year the property taxes are going up $200 to $300 a year in this area.

[hopespringseternal]

It's hard to believe people are complaining about $2000 to $3000 a year because Texas is much higher like you said. Every year the property taxes are going up $200 to $300 a year in this area.

Well, I will be complaining about any property tax. It is an abomination that effectively destroys private ownership. You will always just be a renter.

I just wonder what drug people are on that, even in Texas, people vote for property tax increases without fail. If it weren't for the caps, the fools would have voted themselves into a situation where the taxes on a house are more expensive than the house.

[FITZ]

I never voted in favor of any property tax. Here the schools and county hospital are very expensive to maintain and only becoming worse ----they've been receiving large federal grants lately to keep them afloat because huge property taxes no longer can do it. So many taxpayers are leaving, they're beginning to think we're "maxed-out" on property taxes.

[Sundog]

A Pleasure to hear from you.

I spent a year over in Cordova as the AM announcer on KLAM, Cordova Alaska.

Soak up all the wild wilderness and feeling of alone-ness you can, since down here it never gets so good.

cheers.

[ASOC]

LOL
That's what I like about Anchorage, ALaska is such a short drive away! An RVers pair o dice every summer.
And 47 degrees and raining today - love that global warming!
Hoo-ah

[Sundog]

Pleasure to talk to you ASOC.

The lonliest place (i.e. farthest from any settlements) in the continental US is here in Utah, in Escalante. Alaska beats Utah for that though.

Cheers.

[ASOC]

LOL
I own property in Delta & was at Nellis for years - mostly "uprange" Just a few miles from Ut
Used to go to Lund and buy spuds for 50C for 100 lbx - you wont find that in Alaska...