On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 1:34:18 PM UTC-4, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Ed Pawlowski writes:
On 4/20/2015 12:39 PM, philo wrote:
Just got a letter from the city of Milwaukee and I see that the property
taxes on my house are going up yet again. Looks like about 5%.

The Gov. Walker certainly did not keep his campaign promise of lower
taxes...the increase is no better/ no worse than under Democratic
governors. Were the increase going to help maintain the educational
systems within the state I could deal with it.

In our state the State government and the governor have nothing to do
with property taxes. The rate is set by the town and all money goes tot
he town.

Of course, the town may actually have to raise the rate to cover
a reduction in other monies granted to the town/township/county
by the state and/or feds.

Yes, without knowing what changed, it's impossible to identify
whether the source is local, state, and maybe even feds. It also
depends what those taxes are already. Some places, with low taxes,
a 5% increase wouldn't be as bad in the overall picture as it would
someplace else, that relies on high property taxes.