Lawmakers in Olympia are considering proposals to raise Washington’s long-standing 1% cap on annual property tax increases. Options include bumping the cap to 3% or tying it to inflation and population growth, potentially leading to increases of 4% to 6% per year. What do you think? Cast your vote in this week’s Clark County Today poll.
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This vote doesn’t matter anyway. They will simply keep raising assesed values to get our money!
The poll isn’t working, it keeps going for 15 minutes, so here’s my 2 cents. Hell no, I had to sell my house 3 years ago because I could’nt afford the property tax. Many seniors and lower income people can’t afford it. Why do we buy a house pay it off but if you don’t pay your taxes the state can confiscate it? So if we pay for it forever, then who owns it? The state? We just pay rent on what we already bought. Property taxes should be abolished on residential properties. Period.
look who are we kidding? it doesn’t matter what us peon taxpayers think. the people that we have appointed/voted for will do whatever they want, just like the $30 license we voted and approved our voices were squashed by the very people we put in office because we the voters/taxpayers weren’t smart enough to understand what we were approving. so when the people let their voices be heard and then the politicians deny our voices they are telling us our opinions/voices don’t mean squat to them.kinda like taxation without representation.
as i said before, remember these people when their time comes around and boot em outta here whether local or state if the tri-county seattle/tacoma area up north will let us because we all know they are the ones that ones that decide for the entire state