Re: Best response to landowner tax complaints?

"The only good tax is one that somebody else pays."

"sinister" <sinister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There's a lot of political momentum in my locality (MD suburbs of Wash DC)
> for cutting property tax rates. Today's _Washington Post_ metro section has
> an article, "Outcry Rises as Levy on Montgomery Property Also Increases."
> First 'graphs (URL
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12353-2005Apr23.html) follow.
> Any suggestions for a short list of counterpoints?
>
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> "The tone of Colleen Carrigan's April 12 e-mail to the Montgomery County
> Council went from polite to combative in a single sentence.
> "Requesting a list of council members who have voted to increase property
> tax revenue beyond limits set in the county charter, she wrote: 'Please
> inform these members that I will actively and adamantly lobby to ensure
> their defeat in upcoming elections. I will cross party lines and vote
> Republican in order to keep from being financially exploited as a homeowner,
> as will many of the neighbors to whom I have spoken.'
>
> "Carrigan is assembling a group called Long Branch Citizens for Homeowners'
> Tax Relief.
>
> "In numbers not seen in years, Montgomery residents are writing, e-mailing
> and stepping up to microphones to demand an end to rising property taxes.
> Their numbers are still limited, but they have commanded the council's
> attention. With varying degrees of conviction, council members are debating
> measures that would provide broad and targeted property-tax relief."
>
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  • Re: Best response to landowner tax complaints?
    ... > for cutting property tax rates. ... "Outcry Rises as Levy on Montgomery Property Also Increases." ... council members are debating ... > measures that would provide broad and targeted property-tax relief." ...
    (sci.econ)
  • Best response to landowner tax complaints?
    ... for cutting property tax rates. ... "The tone of Colleen Carrigan's April 12 e-mail to the Montgomery County ... "Requesting a list of council members who have voted to increase property ... measures that would provide broad and targeted property-tax relief." ...
    (sci.econ)
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