And as Jeff Wagner pointed out on the radio a little while ago, Milwaukee County sent out reassessment notices that landed in property owners' mailboxes over the weekend. Really bad timing for the tax and spend crowd! Very good timing for Scott Walker.
Need I mention that everyone's property assessments were sharply UP!
SHARPLY UP is a polite way of putting it. Property assessments (and subsequent tax burdens) rose like a shuttle launch in the city of Milwaukee. Thanks to a tip from the local Fox affiliate, Channel 6, LostThread and I were able to peruse the assessments for the city. Click here for the link to the City of Milwaukee Property Data website.
Pick an address; any address. Marvel and shudder at the increased tax burden in one year the owner of that property is facing.
We found a $13,000.00 assessment increase on a property that was DEMOLISHED!
I'm not going to list any specific addresses here, because I feel it is important that this link not be pulled. But you will find, if you look carefully, that the property assessment of a certain politician in a southeastern Wisconsin city actually went down. Funny how that works, isn't it?