El Paso County commissioners plan to raise taxes this year, but they’re placing the blame on state lawmakers. According to KFOX 14, Commissioner David Stout said the new tax trigger was the reason for hitting homeowners and businesses with bigger tax bills. “We have so many things that we need to pay for this time around because next...
The city of Austin is giving taxpayers one more run for their money before the new property tax trigger comes into effect. An article recently published in the Austin American-Statesmandetails city manager Spencer Cronk’s proposal to “bump up property tax revenue by 8% one last time before the newly adopted, stricter 3.5% property tax revenue cap” takes...
The Mackinac Center’s David Guenthner has a new think piece in The Hill challenging some of the conventional wisdom surrounding gentrification. Guenthner’s central point is that low-income Americans may actually stand to benefit from gentrification. As evidence, he points to a working paper recently published by the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia that argues that displacement is...