Insane Property Taxes
Not fully recovered from my shock at receiving the assessed value for 2008 property taxes on my homestead, I am entering the outrage stage. FOURTEEN percent, fifty-frickin-three thousand dollars, is what the economic geniuses at city hall say my value has increased! In what world has real estate gone up 14% in the last year????? (This after a 12% increase last year.)
Have my fellow bloggers' assessed fantasy values increased similarly? Is this a shameful manuever by local governments to place pressure on the legislature for increased local government aid? I'll tell you what it is: it is theft. Pure and simple legalized theft. At gunpoint.
Have my fellow bloggers' assessed fantasy values increased similarly? Is this a shameful manuever by local governments to place pressure on the legislature for increased local government aid? I'll tell you what it is: it is theft. Pure and simple legalized theft. At gunpoint.
posted by Scribbler de Stebbing | 3/25/2007 07:39:00 AM
What would Laurie Swanson say if "predatory lenders" suddenly jacked their rates to 14% instead of rates half that which are causing her so much anxiety?
You do realize, don't you, that you can get a rebate from the state if your property taxes increase beyond a certain amount or percentage?
J. Ewing
Btw, I sweet-talked the assessor down by $38,000. I'm very proud of myself.
Post a Comment