This mfer not knowing how municipality finances work…
Fight back against corporate greed making every part of your life more expensive, including your cities and counties work and maintenance projects, which requires them to raise taxes to stay solvent.
But here in KC people saw 100% to 150% increases, which was so ludicrous that the state tax commission stepped in and capped increases. We also just voted to recall our county executive who defended the assessments
And our scenario is not unique. It’s happening everywhere in this country.
Even though there is a legal process for tax assessment, that doesn’t mean it isn’t abused or corrupted. Also doesn’t make it okay for the county to levy unfair taxes to homeowners.
It really depends how you define unfair, and the context surrounding it.
Is it unfair because there is corruption and misuse of tax dollars? In which case, yeah that’s a pretty big problem and people need to be removed and even go to jail.
Is it unfair because your municipality is about to go bankrupt? No not really because you don’t have a choice at that point. The failures that brought this about should probably result in the removal of people regardless.
Unfortunately, many municipalities in the US are going bankrupt largely because of corporate greed and the negligence of those counties from pushing back against it. Making this a pretty widespread problem as you have also noticed.
Things like:
lower tax rates for large corporate entities who are affecting/clearing out local business.
Money leaving the community because money spent at large corporate owned businesses does not cycle back through the local economy. Which reduces the viability of the local economy and local businesses which reduces municipal tax income, without reducing the municipal financial burden.
Classic parking lot sprawl that often brings in low tax revenue and has extremely high municipality maintenance costs…etc)
corporations reaping local natural resources but not having hefty taxes levied against them so that the community benefits from it
…etc
Ultimately, this has its roots back in corporate greed and corporate consolidation.
This mfer not knowing how municipality finances work…
Fight back against corporate greed making every part of your life more expensive, including your cities and counties work and maintenance projects, which requires them to raise taxes to stay solvent.
I know how they are supposed to work, sure.
But here in KC people saw 100% to 150% increases, which was so ludicrous that the state tax commission stepped in and capped increases. We also just voted to recall our county executive who defended the assessments
And our scenario is not unique. It’s happening everywhere in this country.
Even though there is a legal process for tax assessment, that doesn’t mean it isn’t abused or corrupted. Also doesn’t make it okay for the county to levy unfair taxes to homeowners.
It really depends how you define unfair, and the context surrounding it.
Is it unfair because there is corruption and misuse of tax dollars? In which case, yeah that’s a pretty big problem and people need to be removed and even go to jail.
Is it unfair because your municipality is about to go bankrupt? No not really because you don’t have a choice at that point. The failures that brought this about should probably result in the removal of people regardless.
Unfortunately, many municipalities in the US are going bankrupt largely because of corporate greed and the negligence of those counties from pushing back against it. Making this a pretty widespread problem as you have also noticed.
Things like:
Ultimately, this has its roots back in corporate greed and corporate consolidation.