Sedgwick County Manager Bill Buchanan’s proposed 1-mill property-tax cut as part of his 2009 budget plan may be unusual but it’s not unprecedented, as he told us Thursday. In the wake of the county’s 2.1-mill increase in 1997 for the most recent jail expansion, he noted, the county adopted budgets in 1998, 1999 and 2000 reducing the levy by 0.5 mill, 1 mill and 0.1 mill, respectively. Of course, even when the mill levy goes down, it’s often offset by rising property valuations.
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When you hear of taxes being cut look elsewhere for the tax increases. Property taxes go down, sales taxes go up. Politicians will play the ol’ shift the burden game and the trend since the 80s has been to shift more of the burden to middle and working class people.
What tax cut? What has the county done with the money they’ve already collected for the jail tax?
This is an election ploy of Winters. If Winters loses Buchanan may be out of a job.
JohnGalt asks an interesting question. What has the county done with the money they have already received?
Why not give all of the money back to the people?
If Winters is re-elected you can bet the jail expansion will be back on the table within the next one to two years.
Huh–still awaiting moderation? Okay.
Try this:
Who is John Galt?
Oh, right:
Officer Barbrady: Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of , I am never reading again.
Some other different words. . ..
The mil levy, property valuation, and sales tax shuffle should be the official dance of kansas.
And who said poop rolls downhill?
Cut fed taxes, they roll down to the state. Cut state taxes for business, they roll down to the county. Cut county taxes and they roll down to the city, cut city taxes and the infrastructure goes to hell.
Kansas… as dumb as you think
Repukes always think someone else will pay their bills and bail them out. Must come from having rich mommies and daddies who did the same.
How’s that workin’ for Kansas?
But hey, thank goodness we’re STILL safe from gay marriage…
Cutting property taxes makes for good election year politics, we’ll have to see what the county appraiser does I’m thinking 10 to 15% increases in property values to make up for the lost revenue
There are 105 different taxing authorities within the County.
Add to that, addistional “specials” for bond financed improvoements.
Everyone in Sedgwick County is within the Sedgwick County taxing district.
Everyone in Sedgwick County is within the Kansas taxing district.
Then, it gets complicated, with Cities, School Districts, Townships, Cemetary Districts, Drainage Districts etc.
There are thousands of seperate “tax units” in Sedgwick County. A “tax unit” is defined as a contiguous area of identical taxation.
It is a good thing that the County will be lowering its PORTION of the total mill levy. However, Sedgwick County is only a portion of the total levy! School Districts, Cities and Townships will have to keep their levy the same, or decrease their various levies, for the total mill levy, in any particular “tax unit” to go down.
I am tossing lots of extra letters into my posts that I do not think I typed, in the first place.
Going to do a quick scan and reboot.
Election ploy! And a really stupid one so that probably means too many will fall for it.
Taxes don’t go down, just up with reappraisal. Tax payers are pigs and politicians are the wolves. Just wait until we get hit with emission, greenhouse taxes and other save the world crap. Then the blue sky and whatever will be out of sight.
(actually the train was bound for Sedgwick County and it looked like it might struggle to make it that far).
Listen to George, he’s paying 3 times more a gallon for gas than he was when WorstPresidenEver took office, and all he can do is whine about taxes that haven’t even been created yet.
Proving once again that “not all CONs are stupid people, but all stupid people are CONs.”