Sometimes government employees get complacent that they are safe in their jobs and forget they are a ‘GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE!” In my unit of government our staff, regardless of the position they hold within the organization, are paid to be NICE! We practice this like a religion.

Every now and then someone has a bad day and has to be reminded of where our bread is buttered, but for the most part, we live by and practice our stated Mission, Vision and Values. I am curious if Meridian Irrigation even has a set of organizational values. They might think about developing one. Have a great Holiday, Love You.

Raising the tax by 20% on sales, and now I receive my property tax bill with a increase of
18%.

Instead of having a fixed price on school maintance based on property tax, the one cent tax is suppose to guarantee this construction procedure on schools.

Every one cent tax to Idaho generates 200 million to the general fund. How did this effect my property tax?

I am guessing it did not?

What I am reading in the paper is that it affects the personal property of business and farmers.

Am I right?

In other words, maybe the income tax isn’t perfect, but it is far better than sales tax, flat tax, value added tax and property tax schemes.

I get a separate sewer and trash bill so those are not covered now by property taxes.

We should be taxed on income, not assets (property) or spending (sales taxes).

EDITOR NOTE–I don’t have the answer. We have tax on income and it is frought with loopholes. Should a guy with 4 kids who makes $50,000 pay the same tax as a retired guy who makes $50K from stocks?

Idaho’s “three legged stool of sales, income, and property tax is not a bad system. Shifting the burden around is the problem.

Duh!

I trust you’ll keep this on a save key to use as a standing headline every year or oftener. ?.
They’ve risen about every year since I moved to the area 40+ years ago.
The officials’ explanation? Somebody built a big new house in our neighborhood, and that somehow made mine supposedly more valuable. Same house, same services, higher taxes. Hmmm …

And the colonists thought taxation *without* representation was bad!

How do we make sure the legislature is DOA? We need to get rid of the people who stand in the way of important tax relief for the people of this state. To continue to RAISE property taxes at a time when the entire country is looking at the possibility of a recession is simply asking for horrible economic trouble. How many people in Idaho are going to have to lose their homes before the State Legislature wakes up and listens to the Governor? OTTER IS RIGHT — property tax increases must be limited to protect homeowners from the voracious appetite of big government.

Prop 13 works!

In 2001 my property taxes (the amount I paid at the end of the year) went down, about $80. In 2004 they went down again, by about $19. And in 2006 they went down by about $660 due to the increase in the homeowner exemption from $50,000 to $75,000. This year, 2007, they went up about $160 in spite of the increase in homeowners exemption from $75000 to $89325, probably because the valuation of my lot doubled while the valuation of the improvement (my house) decreased. So taxes do go down, at least my individual taxes have gone down at times. I am quite sure that the total budget of the taxing authorities has probably never gone down.

We need leadership that will follow the desires of the citizens, and not the corporate interests, and I’m not just referring to local politics.