Proposed bond issues unaffordable
When I received my property tax valuation this year, my valuation had increased. I live in the Ruby Hill neighborhood, where overall values have decreased. Although I maintain my home, I haven’t added big improvements.
I protested my valuation and have just received notice that my protest was denied and the valuation stands. I’m sure I could not sell my home for the valuation the assessor’s office insists is correct. I am now invited to appeal that decision by going to the Board of Equalization.
I think it will be easier to just vote against all of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s requests for funding this year. I like the mayor and I can see the needs. I was going to vote for most of the requests; but I can’t afford both.
Carole Newman, Denver
I have used this before, but I think it applies here. There are lies, damned lies then, there are statistics. Statistics can be manipulated to prove a thing is so and those same statistics can also be manipulated to prove the same thing is not so. This is the tactic politicians use when they want more money from the taxpayers and is also the reason many of there taxpayer funded programs fail; It seemed, by spinnign the statistics, a good idea at the time. You wonder where your money goes and why taxes rise? It's flushed down the political toilet along with the " good ideas at the time" while politicians hope and pray you won't notice.
Posted by Allen Campbell on September 11, 2007 03:39 AMwell if you like hick you now get to pay for his ideas and his sanctuary city he is so proud of. please dont turn your back on his tax increases as he needs your money to give benefits to the illigals he so loves.
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Posted by test on September 11, 2007 08:18 AMSo I take it that you are not going to vote for Ritter's "Blue Ribbon" commission's proposed $26 billion annual healthcare "fix" that will tax every man, woman and child in Colorado some $5,000 per year. Good decision.
But don't forget, you could make arrangements with your employer to mail your paycheck directly to the state capital...just think of all the postage that you will save.
Posted by Hank on September 11, 2007 08:46 AMThis problem reflects a much deeper problem: Allowing the tax authorities to tell us what our property values are so they can tax them.
The tax authorities are under constant pressure from politicians to increase the revenues of the government using whatever means are at their disposal. Since Colorado citizens put the requirement that they ask our permission to raise the actual tax rates or to create new taxes, they have instead turned to increasing the 'taxable valuations' of our properties and increasing the 'fees' we pay for everything from driver's licenses to construction permits.
What we as a society need to do is to evaluate our government's value. Are we getting our money's worth? Personally, I think the answer is not only no, but HELL NO!
Posted by James on September 11, 2007 09:09 AM