Remember, the current budget - including police staffing cuts - already
assumes a pretty stiff tax hike: 8 percent overall property tax increase per
annum. It will be higher for residents because of state property-tax rate
shifts from business toward homeowners.
Of course a return to a progressive income tax would be
preferred, but given the reluctance of the "no tax increase"
republicans to approve such reasonable and progressive tax policies a
property tax increase may be neccessary.
So...if Peter wants to hire more cops without cutting something else, he has
to go *above* the 8 percent average increase. That's why it's not so easy to
hire more cops.
With rising crime driving residents out of the 'hoods
ultimately the overheated real estate market will see a severe
correction. With that drastic drop in property values will come a
drastic drop in property tax revenues as Minneapolis slouches toward
East St. Louis. Or, we can raise taxes, borrow, whatever too fully
staff our police department, drive the criminals out of town, and
turn the 'hoods into such hot property that we can pay off the bonds
early.
hanging on in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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