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Is it the state government, or is the local/town/municipality government that sets the property tax rate?
It depends on the state I am sure. It often is the state setting a minimum property tax that it gets and then the municipality adds more on top of it that it gets.
If you want nice things you have to pay for them, what's the problem?
Champagne tastes, beer money?
Often it isn't the people with champagne tastes but rather the local govt itself with higher wages than the private sector is paying, better benefits, and perhaps worse of all, bloated staffing levels. To justify it they layer on ever more complex regulations. Then there's new buildings to house all the staff, though ultimately it is bloat and waste in the schools that is the primary driver.
It does not serve a community's interests to force people into foreclosure or tax sale or bankruptcy over high propertytaxes, yet it seems many communities don't care if the alternative is lower staffing on their part. Town/city employees represent their interests over the resident's interests every time.
Often it isn't the people with champagne tastes but rather the local govt itself with higher wages than the private sector is paying, better benefits, and perhaps worse of all, bloated staffing levels. To justify it they layer on ever more complex regulations. Then there's new buildings to house all the staff, though ultimately it is bloat and waste in the schools that is the primary driver.
It does not serve a community's interests to force people into foreclosure or tax sale or bankruptcy over high propertytaxes, yet it seems many communities don't care if the alternative is lower staffing on their part. Town/city employees represent their interests over the resident's interests every time.
"A property tax is levied by the governing authority of the jurisdiction in which the property is located. This can be a national government, a federated state, a county or geographical region or a municipality. Multiple jurisdictions may tax the same property." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
And McHenry County, Illinois "has voted for the Republican candidate for President in all but two elections since 1880." In recent elections GW Bush captured 59.72% of the county vote, and Mitt Romney captured 53% of the vote. This county is historically republican going all the way back to the year 1880. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McHenr...inois#Politics
And your source states "It doesn’t take a sleuth to track down the cause of McHenry County’s soaring property taxes: bigger spending school districts." (Your source mentions nothing about democrats being responsible for the high property taxes.) In McHenry County, teacher pay spikes while home values plummet | McHenry Times
How are democrats responsible for those high property taxes as your thread claims?
And on a national level republicans are majorly responsible for the (outrageous) property taxes in McHenry County, Illinois. This was caused by GW Bush giving huge tax cuts to the richest 1% of Americans, and this caused states to get less federal funding. Bush Tax Cuts After 2002: June 2002 CTJ Analysis
Illinois gets $714 million dollars a year less in federal funding since the Bush tax cuts. And Illinois could have used that federal funding to pay their increased education expenses. But instead Illinois was forced to raise taxes to make up for cuts in federal funding caused by GW Bush's tax cuts. Impact of Bush Plan on State Revenues: CTJ Analysis
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