Our property taxes increased 11.1% or $275, just short of $23 a month.
Here's how the increase breaks down for me:
Hennepin County: $59.5
Library $16
Remainder of City Tax: $85.28
School District Approved Levy: $15.72
Other local levies: $76.61
School District Total: $92.33
Metropolitan Council: $2.35
Solid Waste Mgmt Fee: $4.45
$174.63 from all forms of government minus the city or $15.5 a month, the
city increase $9 a-month. Any of these tax increase received separately would
not seem as alarming but combined and it does make you look twice.
My retired mother lives in St. Louis Park and her taxes have doubled in the
last five-years. She is on a fixed income so it really hurts! I have cousins
that live in other suburbs and they face similar increases. The state cuts to
local government aid and the incredible financial mess created during the
1990's by former city leaders has not helped the our situation. Shifting the
burden from state and federal government to property taxes will be an issue
during the governors race because so many people are feeling the pinch.
Bussiness have recieved cuts and the wealthiest MN do not pay the nearly the
same precentage of income towards taxes as the rest of us do. We really need to
look at how is paying their fair-share and who isn't?
Ken Bradley
Kenny Neighborhood
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