RE: Property Taxes

2000-11-20 Thread Richard Chandler
Brauer, you sound a little defensive here. That wasn't the Minneapolis GOP chair - it was the entire Minneapolis GOP committee who voted to support the library referendum. It voted to support the school referendum as well. And then later requested that this be printed on the GOP sample

RE: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread David Brauer
Adam writes: I'm really tempted to vent on these admitted liberals writing in to complain about the property tax increases. Your votes and your support have served to amplify an ongoing problem - I would say crisis. As Steve Minn pointed out, we haven't even seen the bill for the new library.

Re: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread constance13
David Brauer said: It's no fun having to vote for reckless spenders, but the GOP in the last several years has only offered the alternative of feckless social conservatives and fiscal unsophisticates even more out of touch with the city public than the institutional DFL is. Ouch! That

RE: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread ferma001
One of the things that annoys me more than anything else whenever the taxes subject comes up, be it income property or sales, is that the debaters seldom, if ever, equate taxes with services expected. Some folks want nice pathways around the lakes to walk, jog, bike, or blade on - other

RE: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread Mark Engebretson
My understanding of the law is that assessors are still required to visit--or attempt to visit--a property once every four years. I suspect that most often the assessor makes the in-person appraisal by eye-balling the exterior of a given home, and then relies also on other information--building

Re: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread Adam Stenberg
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --036D650C515B33BB3E8997F7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd expect the politically lazy to categorically disparage an entire set of candidates based on their political endorsement, but not

RE: Property Taxes

2000-11-16 Thread David Brauer
Adam writes: Admittedly, we didn't take the time to post our ideas to this list of DFLers, but I'll seriously reconsider that in the future (many 60Bers are on this list). I am well aware that we can't solve these problems without working across party lines This seems contradictory: if we're