[icwhatudo]

Utter BS.

Its like when your local government claims they will keep property tax rates from going up...but then increase assessments so you wind up with a tax increase while they can claim they held rates in check.

[tobyhill]

That is true but if Obama accepts anything less than the rate increase he loses.

[Lancey Howard]

Its like when your local government claims they will keep property tax rates from going up...but then increase assessments so you wind up with a tax increase while they can claim they held rates in check.

Precisely!

[Terry Mross]

This was a gimmick Perry used in his re-election campaign. He was going to cut property taxes and even told what the average person would save. The local assessor here in Houston contacted Perry’s people and told them the figures didn’t add up but they kept running with it. All that ended up happening was the appraisals went up.

Had he done better in the primaries you can bet this is one thing that would have come up.