You made me look. The school and bonds are about 43%, so not most, but way more than what your saying. Of course, there’s no stopping the public school rape of the taxpayer in the future, either so if there were any relief, it would be brief.
To be clear, the extras are .24% out of the total, which is 1.24%; so that means the bonds, etc are about 19% of my total Property Tax bill.
In CA, you’re likely to have an assessed value in the $750k realm, which gets you two installments of $4650; on by November, and one by April — $9300 total.
You saving grace is you are not reassessed annually.
However, if that were taken in Sales Tax, not Property Tax, you wouldn’t pay that much tax unless you spent over $100,000 on goods and services; and groceries aren’t taxed.
But that tradeoff will never happen in CA, because it’s far too late; government is happily “double dipping” — collecting BOTH Sales AND Property Tax.
Whatever may come of this move in Idaho, at the very least, residents are paying ONLY ONE form of tax; NOT TWO.
THAT’S A WIN, because there’s only one number for the State and local municipalities to jigger with, and it’s a highly visible number, and therefore easy to hold elected officials accountable for changing it.
Beyond that “maintenance,” it falls to Idahoans only to PREVENT Property Tax from being reinstated unless Sales Tax is, once again, eliminated. THAT’S the hill you die on.