Property Taxes Up ---- Population Down

[Ross]

Property taxes up almost everywhere,
but population down in most
Kansas Counties

Over the last 10 years (1997 to 2007), property taxes statewide have increased 83% ... Residential property taxes are even worse, with a 119% increase in total collections. There simply is no good reason for these outrageous increases. It's not driven by a need to serve more people; Kansas' population has only grown 7% over that same period. It's not inflation; the Consumer Price Index increased about 2.5% per year. It's the appraisal process.

Read the whole story at:
http://kansasmeadowlark.com/blog/2009/01/28/property-taxes-up-almost-everywhere/

[srkruzich]

Theft is theft.  Never met a liberal that was opposed to it as long as it isn't their money.

Property taxes up almost everywhere,
but population down in most
Kansas Counties

Over the last 10 years (1997 to 2007), property taxes statewide have increased 83% ... Residential property taxes are even worse, with a 119% increase in total collections. There simply is no good reason for these outrageous increases. It's not driven by a need to serve more people; Kansas' population has only grown 7% over that same period. It's not inflation; the Consumer Price Index increased about 2.5% per year. It's the appraisal process.

Read the whole story at:
http://kansasmeadowlark.com/blog/2009/01/28/property-taxes-up-almost-everywhere/

[Anmar]

Theft is theft.  Never met a liberal that was opposed to it as long as it isn't their money.

Yeah, except these are conservatives that are raising your taxes....

[redcliffsw]

Republicans are not true conservatives.  They're socialists.  And so are the reconstructed Democrats.