the class, almost half a million dollars. think what you could do with that money. parents don t know and parents don t get the bill. says the problem. if you go and buy a service to miss a you want to send the package, you are presented with the cost of doing that. in public schooling the most you will see that you might see your property tax bill. even that, you have the fuse that cost through lots of people who don t have children. also sales taxes. so you don t know the price of all the things you re demanding the sound good. and the worst part is ultimately even a good sounding things don t produce good results. john: thank you. next protest in wisconsin? these people are part of the blob. most remember the teachers union. they lost this fight. two years later we can see the results. so what are they? so what are they? that s n i m the world s worst cleaning lady.
here s your friday forecast. dense fog in the pacific northwest. light snow from fargo to marquette, michigan. and in western new york. showers for much of florida. 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal from chicago to l.a. 77 in l.a. 60 in colorado springs. 52 in kansas city. 30s in the northeast. 50s from atlanta to new orleans. this next one is from our don t get mad, get even file. if you ve ever been furious about your property tax bill, which can sometimes be more than your mortgage payment, here s a new folk hero in california. larry tried to may his $14,000 property tax bill but town officials refused. so he came back with the whole thing in coins and dollar bills. ? to garner all that money, he raided his grandkid s piggy banks to fill the wheel barrel. and yes, the town took the money after spending a few hours counting to make sure it was all there.
week before the new year, right? there has been a lot of talk about when it the right time to buy a house and is it now or a time in the future? here s reality. interest rates are still near record lows or at record lows, depending what type of program you qualify for and home prices have declined 30 to 50%. buying at the bottom is something you are really only going to do if you are lucky and we are about as close to the bottom we have been in a long time. you have a lot of highly motivated sellers that want to get it wrapped up before the end of the year and a lot of short sales. you also say when you are looking at a new property going in, not just the home value itself but you may get lower value on your tacks or pay lesson your property tax bill if you review it. what do you mean by that? if there is somebody who owns a home, for example, if you have a home and i was just talking to your producer, half million dollars home in new york, your taxes is going to be about $167,00
deficit. we had one. our largest deaf sets two years ago. started out with $3.6 billion deficit and ended up with a budget for the next two years that actually has a surplus without raising taxes. next month when people see their property tax bill they will see for the first time in many years that, for example, our school tax levies are actually going down on average in the state of wisconsin and yet we still have a better teacher-student ratio, 13 1/2 teachers for every one student versus a higher rate at the national level. we are doing better adding more net teacher positions than we saw layoffs in any school district around the state. our schools and local governments, doing better because we gave them the schools, we protected middle class property taxpayers, unlike other states like illinois where they raised taxes, laid off thousand of public employees and cut services. we did it the right way. you actually saved the jobs of people because the municipalities, local government
deficit. we had one. our largest deaf sets two years ago. started out with $3.6 billion deficit and ended up with a budget for the next two years that actually has a surplus without raising taxes. next month when people see their property tax bill they will see for the first time in many years that, for example, our school tax levies are actually going down on average in the state of wisconsin and yet we still have a better teacher-student ratio, 13 1/2 teachers for every one student versus a higher rate at the national level. we are doing better adding more net teacher positions than we saw layoffs in any school district around the state. our schools and local governments, doing better because we gave them the schools, we protected middle class property taxpayers, unlike other states like illinois where they raised taxes, laid off thousand of public employees and cut services. we did it the right way. you actually saved the jobs of people because the municipalities, local government