Jim Kenyon: Tax time triggers a tempest in Lebanon
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Modified: 12/12/2020 10:42:51 PM
About 230 Lebanon residents have signed a petition calling for the city to “mandate vigorous fiscal restraint going forward in 2021.”
In other words, folks are steamed about their rising property tax bills the second biannual installment for 2020 came due earlier this month and want the city to start spending less on (fill in the blank). The petitioners argue that if Lebanon doesn’t change its spending habits, the city risks pricing older residents out of their homes and impeding working-class families from moving in.