Perhaps Leesa's big cheerleader DV will give her some cheese to have with her whine.

Today's Gazette, she says she opposes reassessment "because the tax RATE will rise."    DUH.   Leesa must be the dumbest person on the face of this earth.   She is so totally CLUELESS !!!!!!!!!!!  


How can someone who is SO VASTLY IGNORANT become part of the city council??????????    Cronyism is the answer.


If the tax RATE is $10 when houses are assessed for $X, and then a reassessment reduces the assessments by 50%, then the tax RATE rises to 20%.

But what Leesa does not understand is that a reassessment will correct the assessed values so that two people with the same identical houses will pay pretty much the same tax BILL - this assumes that one of the two people has grieved and won.


And of course, since tax certiorari suits are reducing the assessment values of the taxpaying properties downtown, the resulting lower tax bills is  getting shifted to the homeowners.


But of course Lessa is trying to protect her precious downtown.   Shift the tax burden to financially struggling homeowners.   That is PRECISELY what Leesa wants, that is EXACTLY what the mayor and the dems on the city council, in the county, and plex want.  


And mayor McTHIEF is as clueless  he says he wants to do it when the market is stable.   So the mayor also believes that people should pay different tax bill despite having identical houses next to each other (assuming one person grieved and the other didn't).  

He also says the city has bottomed out on the home values.      Has he seen the home sale prices in the city, always falling in the city this year compared to last?   Does he have any remote understanding of the equalization rate?  

I couldn't believe what I was reading. About as crazy as Supt Spring telling people to vote for a larger increase because you'll maybe get it back. Is this the gov't people really want?

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I couldn't believe what I was reading. About as crazy as Supt Spring telling people to vote for a larger increase because you'll maybe get it back. Is this the gov't people really want?

While most downtown owners are exempt from paying taxes (well, they pay pilots but the pilot amount is only a very very small percentage of what they would pay in taxes), there are some newer businesses that do pay taxes.  

But the city dems are protecting their wealthy cronies downtown---whether they are exempt from taxes or they are like Subway who gets a reduction.

Between the exemptions  downtown and the successful tax certorari's on downtown properties, the homeowners really have to make up a lot in taxes not paid on downown.

If the city did a reassessment that means the taxpaying downtown properties would see their tax bills increase back to what they were before they sued the city, because as assessment values fall the tax rate rises.

And of course the city dem leaders also don't want to reassess because the mass reduction would be an admission that what they are doing leading this city is nothing but massive failure.

Today a house that is assessed for $100,000 might pay perhaps $6,000 in taxes.  In other cities a house may be worth $200,000 before it pays $6,000 in taxes.   So imagine after an assessment reduction and the $100,000 house paying $6,000 has it's assessment reduced to $60,000 but because tax rates rise the house will still be paying $6,000 in taxes.

That can be a major concern of the failed dem leaders in the city.  If a mortgage payment today is made up of 50% in escrow for taxes, imagine what happens when reassessment is done and people are paying 75% of their mortgage payment in taxes!


Shame on the mayor, dem council reps, department heads, dem county people and metroplex for their policies that cause massive reduction in home values

Between assessed values, market values, equal rate, people gotta be spinning in circles.Could be what they want.