Now that Guilford County homeowners have received their property revaluation notices, Skip Alston is publicly discussing how the County Commissioners’ board will handle property taxes.
The bottom line? Taxes are going up, but maybe not as much as your revaluation might suggest. And some favored parties might get exemptions. However, you can forget about the idea of a revenue-neutral rate. Overlord Skippy has spoken.
The reality is that there is no “fair” way to handle this. Some people are bound to get hurt because some properties increased in value to a much greater extent than others. And it turns out that the lowest priced homes had the heftiest increases in valuation.
Both the city of Greensboro and Guilford County are socialist controlled. That means our leaders are lustily viewing the property tax revaluation as a means of extracting even more money from citizens.
George Hartzman illustrates very well how unjust the entire situation is.
It is interesting that Skippy is citing anticipated growth from new industry as a justification for squeezing the taxpayers. That makes us wonder whether we should be opposed to these new projects. Our leaders should not have recruited these companies if it preordained tax increases for those already here.
But in retrospect, this entire situation makes Skippy’s insistence on huge bond issues for new schools and county facilities– and his zeal to grow county government and the welfare state– appear even more wrongheaded. When Republicans controlled the county board, we had none of these problems.
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