Falling home values mean budget crunches for cities

Washington Post ^ | Brady Dennis

[kearnyirish2]

“Many Pennsylvania Counties (assessments are done by County government) have voted to delay countywide reassessment indefinitely.”

In my neck of the woods in NJ they had revaluations a few years ago, not so much to increase taxes as to root out the illegal apartments where all of our “guest workers” were living. They didn’t even want to remove the illegal apartments; they wanted the American property owners to pay pay taxes as 2- or 3-family homes rather than the 1-family units they were built and taxed as. Nobody cared until the children of the “guest workers” (remember that name for them, when we pretended they were temporary?) showed up in the public schools. Towns that are officially 80% “white” have student bodies that are 50% Hispanic.

[Venturer]

Exactly, the old double dip.

These people in Congress who want to sock it to us on tax’s forget that States and County are already hosing us down.

They lower our tax’s by cutting payments to states, States cut tax’s by cutting the portion they return to County and County has to nail us to the cross.All the time taking highway funds and adding them to the General Fund and crying they cant fix the roads.

We are at the bottom of the tax food chain, and getting the shaft.