I've attended a number of candidate forums and frankly, much of the
discussions have come down to money - how we don't have enough of it. Not
enough money to keep the libraries open more than three days a week, to
restore all the cops that have been cut, to keep the parks open as much as
kids need them, to improve the snow plowing, and to do other things that
citizens need.
The Minnesota tax system is very complex and frankly most people don't
understand how it works. So I have put up two pages on the tax system up on
my website. The first is about why property taxes for the average citizen
are going up. This is under the button "Taxes up?" The second talks about
how the nuts and bolts of how the property tax system works (warning, it is
a bit complex even though I tried to simplify it). For people who don't
want to wade through the whole thing though, I started it with who you need
to talk to when to affect different portions of the tax system.
These are both available at www.carolbecker.net Just click through the
splash page at the front and you will see these buttons. Hopefully this
will help folks have a more realistic debate about funding of municipal
services.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
Candidate for the Board of Estimate and Taxation
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