-----Original Message----- From: David Brauer
Vicky writes: > Minneapolis is the RICHEST city in the state (20% of the taxable real > estate, but only 11% of the population.) What is the source of this data? For example, the population figure is wrong. Minneapolis had 382,618 people in the 2000 Census (http://www.metrocouncil.org/Census/news_265.htm); Minnesota had 4,919,479 people in the same census (http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/mn.html). That means we have 7.8 percent of the state population, not 11 percent. I'd bet Vicky's taxable real estate figure is also wrong - at least until I see a source. [TB] According to a MN House publication on fiscal disparities, Minneapolis and St. Paul combined had 25.9% of the -metro area- commerical/industrial tax base in 1998. The same cities had 224.8% of the population of the same area. http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/fiscaldis.pdf (page 4) The same report (page 24) says that if the program were eliminated, Minneapolis taxes would have increased by 1% for Residential Homestead and .6% of Commercial/Industrial property. Incidently Local Government Aids and Fiscal Disparities are separate programs. Terrell Brown Loring Park terrell at terrellbrown dot org TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
