County Auditor Vicki Urbanik released her annual report for local governments to learn how much to expect to lose to property tax caps as they go through the 2023 budget
government spending. when you look around this region, government finances aren t in great shape, and there doesn t appear to be a situation that governments can actually meet the needs, the kind of spend the money that would needed to really ease the pain that so many ordinary people are feeling in places like ecuador, panama where there have been tax caps on fuel price. that hasn t been enough to quell the popular discontent that has people taking to the streets. as we look to the near term, later in the summer, into the fall, will there be more protests, more social unrest? as one expert told me, it s not a matter of if, but when. matt rivers, cnn, mexico city. it seems though one knno on knows what s happening at the largest nuclear plant in europe. the head of the international
SOUTH BEND â Anthony Gianoli doesnât remember if he voted for the South Bend School Corp.âs $220 million referendum last year, but he said school officials led him to believe the measure would have little impact on his property taxes.
So Gianoli, 69, was shocked when he opened a letter from the county treasurerâs office this spring and found the referendum tacked on $324, helping drive a 35% spike in his overall property tax bill.
âThey said it will be a minimal increase, maybe $10 or $15,â Gianoli said. âI think we were misled on this thing.â
Gianoli is not alone.
Staffers at the St. Joseph County Auditorâs office have been taking non-stop phone calls from taxpayers demanding to know why they owe hundreds more dollars this year, office manager Kathy Gregorich said, with most of the calls focusing on the impact of the ballot measure that raised money for the school district.
problems, take on these problems, unless you first do something about the cost of entitlements. earned benefits. earned benefits. i think to not get entangled in the social security and medicare conversation because a lot of people will say we need to raise the tax caps on who is going taxed on these things before we talk about slashing them for the neediest. there s a whole debate to be had there. to your point about whether the president has been embracing sort of progressive priorities, i do think the affordable care absent is a hugely progressive program. at the same time, michael, i d love to get your thoughts on this, i think the president has had a rocky relationship with the progressive left. i think the idea they have been rabble-rousers and just haven t appreciated all the work he s done is to some degree fair. we are seeing a move here, the fact you have a powerful person taken seriously in the form of elizabeth warren, in the senate,