Task Your State Legislators to Fix Property Tax Spiral

In the 'There ought to be a Law' department', there should be a legislative limit set to the percentage amount of property tax increase that County Assessors could levy against homeowners in a single year. It should be no more than a single digit as in 5% or 6% maximum vs the almost 15000 people who are victimized with a %10 or more increase in assessed value. Let's hear from Cann, Miley, Iaquinta, Minard. Where do you guys stand? I heard Richard Iaquinta (Delegate Harrison - Democrat) expressing concern tonight on WDTV about the state of education in Harrison County. Unspecified, but terrible things will happen if the confiscatory reassessment of property taxes is not implemented. Hold on! County residents recently passed the excess levy for education, yet again. Voluntarily increasing their property taxes to support county education at what the voters thought was a well-defined level. So, what is the PROBLEM, Mr Iaquinta? The public was told that to vote for the Levy would NOT increase anyone's taxes. The Dirty little secret was that the Board of Education members and the Assessors knew that since the county properties were going to be reassessed, the Board of Education would get a hughe increase in dollars by skimming off the same percentage of a much, much larger amount. Their shorts are twisted in knots because they have to live with last year's budget.