Diane Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The main question I have is whether
people who have
less incomes are being hit harder. That would not be good. If we want to
have a decent city, we're going to have to pay for it. I will buy $300 less
of some kind of thing that I probably don't really "need", and that seems a
small sacrifice to pay for a better city. I just would want to know that
families with less income are not going without food or heat in order to pay
their mortgages.
Diane Wiley, perhaps idealistic to a fault in Tangletown...
ML:
I'll let you know how it went come Spring. On the same day that I received
my letter from Hennepin County, I believe the Strib also ran a story on
climbing mortgage interest rates. I don't recall (I don't want to think about
it) if my taxes increased by 10 or 20 % this year as the notice was part of an
increasing white noise of negative economic news.
At some point last year, New Jersey considered (and passed?) a millionaires'
tax to reduce local property taxes as well as to buttress funding for health
care and education. Being taxed on the ability to pay taxes, now that's a
novel idea. The guv could call it a Millionaires' fee and pick up some votes
in Minneapolis.
Matty Lang,
Hoping hard for a 3% raise in 06 but not holding my breath in Central
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