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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged property tax

School budgets, property tax relief keeping Iowa legislature in a deadlock

By | 04.29.11 | 10:44 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Iowa’s school districts’ operating budgets are the major roadblock preventing the end of the legislative session, Democrats said Thursday. While both sides of the aisle continue to negotiate and discuss how the state should budget, an unwillingness to compromise on Iowa schools’ allowable growth and property tax relief is keeping More…

The Housing Crisis and the Coming City Budget Crunch

By | 10.06.10 | 11:10 am

The federal government’s single biggest source of revenue is income tax, but cities and towns are primarily funded by sales and property taxes. That means Washington’s revenue took a huge hit in 2008 and 2009, as payrolls declined. But Springfield and Bethesda and Houston? The bust of housing market More…

Hulk Hogan Joins the Tea Party Movement

By | 08.24.09 | 4:38 pm

Hulk Hogan, who’s become a spokesman for the decidedly too-good-to-be-true sounding GuaranteedLowerPropertyTax.com, appeared at the Aug. 22 Orlando Tea Party to tell protesters that he was “in the same boat” as them, and that they could fight the government by signing up at his Website. His pitch from the More…