Portland, Maine to raise property taxes to pay for free housing for ‘asylum-seekers’
American Thinker ^ | 06/10/2022 | Monica Showalter
Posted on 6/10/2022, 3:15:10 PM by SeekAndFind
Illegal aliens are known to cost U.S. citizens billions to support, but rarely is that experienced as directly as it is now in Portland, Maine, where city officials voted to raise property taxes in order to house 1,200 “asylum-seekers,” along with 500 homeless.
According to WGME :
PORTLAND (WGME) — Portland property taxes will soon be going up by 4.8 percent.
Last year, families with a $400,000 home paid about $5,200 in property taxes.
With this new increase, it'll be around $5,550 for that same home.
That's an increase of about $350.
Portland's finance director says without federal help, it will cost the city $9 million to house hundreds of asylum seekers and people experiencing homelessness.
To pay that $9 million, he says the city council would have to raise property taxes by 4.8 percent, which is exactly what they did Monday night.
That's right: the taxpayers will pay. Since this is solid-blue Portland, all one can think is, you get what you vote for. That said, even the bluest of blue cities has many people who didn't.
Hard to feel sorry for them, isn't it?