Joe Doakes, from Saint Paul’s Como neighborhood, has been looking into Saint Paul’s new proposed budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And he emails:<\/p>\n
In this time of economic trouble, when families are tightening their belts and doing with less, it’s refreshing to see that at least some of our loyal public servants know where their priorities lie . . . in their own pockets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m depressingly un-surprised.<\/p>\n
Proposed property tax statements are available on-line from the County’s website. [Joe looked at] samples from the Como-Northdale area; Newell Park; and University Ave area (Charles and Simpson).<\/p>\n
Values dropped in all samples.<\/p>\n
Taxes rose in all samples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They’re happy to make you pay for A Better Minnesota, even if your little corner of Minnesota is just plain worse.<\/p>\n
The County and City mostly held the line (not really, since the City intentionally adopted a Blackmail Budget which assumes fully funded LGA that won’t happen – the City’s tax increases will come later).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bingo.\u00a0 It’s one of those DFL patterns of behavior that is very, very close to becoming another Berg’s Law; DFL city governments will always <\/em>use the city budget in such a way as to exert pressure for DFL priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Vote DFL so that the state gives us more money, or we’ll pass the taxes directly on to you<\/em>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The school district, though, saw fit to raise the levy. And not just a bit, like 5% across the board.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get a 5% raise this year, did you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Pffft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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