Property Taxes
The Citizen had another one of those articles again this year commenting upon what our taxes may cost next time, but as usual it was unclear!
Couldn't, just once, someone speak of this tax as a two part tax, and give us a NET figure we would pay per $200,000 home, for instance.
The home valuation is one; the millage rate on that value is the other.
Those numbers are shuffled, gossiped about, talked about as just millage or just value, and all of the time the local government knows what they are figuring on!
Of course retail sales taxes are going to be down over the next year or two, of course our homes will sell for less than before due to the recession, (and be worth less).
Inflated numbers are always available to use as a propaganda tool to "cut" the taxes with. But they are always higher than was the year before anyway.
Sure would be nice to have the Tennis Center millions about now!
Will a single soul currently employed be laid off?
Might somebody have to do two jobs next year?
And should we hire someone from somewhere else to do a "zero" budgeting for the County and the cities?
All to stop the perpetual increases every single year.
You know in industry sometimes everyone takes a 20% pay cut until the budget can be balanced!
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