The NC Senate passed its temporary, one-year moratorium on property tax increases due to revaluations yesterday. That is intended to give the General Assembly time to get a constitutional amendment passed to limit property tax increases. This issue was made more urgent with the massive increases in property valuations placing […]
Category: Tax and Spend
Massive Increases In State Spending In NC
Jeff Moore, Carolina Journal: Counties like Wake and Cabarrus (my note: and Guilford) are hardly the only government entities raking in and spending billions more than inflation and population growth warrant; the time for real spending reform applies to state government too. In a forthcoming report from John Locke Foundation […]
Guilford Debt Bomb and Property Taxes
Nicky Smith had a good Letter to the Editor calling attention to Guilford County’s massively expanding debt that leads our esteemed county commissioners to feel ever-increasing property taxes are necessary. Scott Yost at the Rhino Times reports about the commissioners’ deliberations regarding how severely they are going to stick it […]
Legacy Media Preparing Guilford Citizens For Probability Of Property Tax Increase
Readers are aware that Skip Alston and his cronies are getting ready to increase our taxes. The only question is how severe the increase will be. To facilitate their tax increase, the News and Record decided to publish a couple of articles. It had been reasonably well known that our […]
N&R: Our Property Tax Rates Highest Among State’s Biggest Cities
The report is found here. The socialists and their allies within the bureaucracy will find ways to rationalize it. But there is a long tradition of our area having much higher taxes than other areas in the state. We live in a “big spending” bubble. To reverse this trend, citizens […]
NC General Assembly About To Come To Property Tax Rescue?
A couple of articles in the regional mainstream media report that Republicans are getting ready to propose a constitutional amendment on property taxes. It would limit property tax increases to a certain formula. This is very much needed, but it will not completely shield us from property tax increases. It […]
Guilford And Forsyth Both Property Tax Abusers
A study by the John Locke Foundation reveals that both Guilford and Forsyth Counties increased their property tax revenues greater than population growth and inflation should have justified. Data was examined over the last ten years. If there is any consolation to be found in the study, it is that […]
Guilford County Commissioners Heard From Property Owners
Sparks flew at the county commissioners’ meeting last night. A similar meeting took place at the Greensboro City Council earlier this week. Even if the county commissioners adopt a revenue-neutral property tax rate after the recent revaluations, some property owners will face steep tax hikes. Some fear they will lose […]
Guilford Property Taxes: Opposition Emerging?
The entire county is now concerned about property tax revaluations. Pat Tillman– one of the county commissioners– says he has as many as four votes in support of a revenue-neutral property tax rate. There are currently only two Republicans on the nine-member board. That means as many as two Democrats […]
Tax Rebellion
I wonder how these great men would react to the taxes we have today: