I’m from Montana, and I gotta call BS on this story, sight unseen. Property taxes have gone up more than I like but last year we received substantial tax breaks in the form of income tax rebates AND property tax rebates.
I’m gonna say there’s a lot more to this story (or a heckuva lot less) than you’d see in a campaign ad.
I’d guess some form of local government increases in taxes, fees, licenses all lumped into this story to make a campaign ad. For instance, I’m still fuming that my little town doubled the fee to dump stone from $20 a ton (which was steep but survivable) to $40 in one year. So when my field stone wall collapsed this winter, the disposal fee was more than $1400, and twice what it cost to hire a contractor to demo the carry out the stone.
The guy worked 2 days to take the debris away, and the city charged me that exorbitant fee just to doze it into a coulee. Non toxic, clean, no trash in it. Just rocks returned to the wild.
So. Be skeptical about this tale in a campaign ad.
Forgot to mention that Ryan Busse is a (D). Trust Busse if you must.
I suspect this guys property is near Flathead Lake.
Lakefront and lake view property have gone up exponentially to regular properties. Whether those properties are in MY, ID or here in NH.
The rich people from California/NYC have bid up properties all across country. Especially IF that buyer has the ability to work from home.
IF you are running a hedge fund making a seven figure income you no longer have to work on Wall Street or San Fran or LA. Meaning, you do not need to commute from Westchester County, NY or Greenwich, CT or the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
I have one question for you regarding your stone wall. Why didn’t you just bury it? Do you not have the space on your property to do that?
This is hat I did when I rebuilt an old swimming pool years ago. I had a guy with a back hoe dig a couple holes and bury the concrete from the old pool on my property.