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upaloopa

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1. Property taxes fund county government services.

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2015, 02:14 PM

Mar 2015

If property taxes were lowered county budgets would suffer so services would need to be cut. Also you hear cries to gut county employee salaries and pensions when services are cut or county government budgets must be cut.
Sales taxes go to the State which does not send all that money to the cities and counties.
What is happening here is to balance the state budgets on the backs of county workers in the long run.

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