This is why comprehensive, single payer public health (and education, infrastructure, police de-escalation and oversight, jobs, transportation, food, and and and) are an investment with incalculable ROI. This is why "render to Caesar."
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How much longer can the people be robbed by the 1% before we take a stand? We're already at a tipping point and I believe things are only going to get more violent and deadly. This is trumps America and his administration is gutting the working class. While this isn't directly related to him, the town is taking a play out of his sex scandal playbook
I think this is more of a sexism thing than a class struggle. It's 2025 and people still think it's OK to cover for rapists. Trump isn't the first, he's just shining a light to what we've tolerated.
Our culture has been completely fine with the occasional rape for centuries, and its enablers are angry and surprised that we don't respect their communities more.
also just gonna write this one down, but it's only a mild killing
That's a really good way to put the victims in danger
How does a school property tax increase just happen without it being voted on and passed by the community?
This is a case of FAFO: the school system took on huge liability (in payment of the judgement) and the school system is funded by property taxes.
Also the city was clearly woefully underinsured with only $1m liability coverage. Most cities should have 10-100x that these days
I get that, but every time the school district in my area wants more money it gets voted on for a property tax increase.
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I'm shocked that it wasn't a cop.
They need $7,500 per resident and, according to the article, they intend to raise that money over three years. I don't know what their property values are like but if I assume an average house price of $300k, a current tax rate of 2%, and three people per house then they're currently getting $6,000 in property taxes per person over three years (which they need to spend on other things) and so an enormous tax increase really is necessary.
(I'm neglecting non-residential property tax payers. A tiny town like this probably doesn't have many.)
Your back of the envelope math is good, but small towns usually have very low property values due to not being super desirable places to live (and declining populations) a realistic average would be 100k average home value. Some will be smaller, older houses and only worth around 25-50k, some will be much newer houses built in this century worth closer to 200-300k but most will be older homes that people continue to live in and maintain worth around 100k
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At this point I’d move across county lines to somewhere nearby that won’t have double the property tax rate.
You'd have to find someone to buy your house, which will probably be difficult, seeing as there's a massive property tax increase heading that way.
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