As a farmer/rancher here in central Kansas I had my land property taxes appreciate about 12% for three consecutive years. I called the county appraiser and asked him what the hell was going on because the commodities I could produce on that land were not appreciating in anywhere near a commensurate fashion. He told me that K-State set that. So effectively a bunch of unelected Agronomy professors were setting my land value. There wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it.
Are you saying that a University (”K-State”) gets to increase your property taxes? Am I reading you right?
Unelected bureaucrats will @#$% you every time. They are protected parties (government employees/government unionists), unanswerable to those over whom they wield such extraordinary power; untouchabble; and they know it.