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  • N.J. has highest property taxes in U.S.

    08/10/2006 11:33:21 AM PDT · by KC_Conspirator · 42 replies · 1,253+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 8/10/06 | TOM HESTER Jr.
    MONTGOMERY, N.J. - Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end. She sent her children through Montgomery's well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years. But her property taxes have climbed 56 percent since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year — a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3 percent a year. "Oh, it's terrible," Lehman said. Despite efforts by governors and lawmakers to do something about...