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Bismarck Tribune Article June 20, 2012

The Governor has called a Task Force

on

Property Tax

What will be in the "package"?   Next Meeting

Special assessments:

It is sad when your government can take a loan, slap your home on as

collateral and make you acquire a debt for 15 years and only if you can inspire the rest in the neighborhood to help you fight it, the debt is yours. SAD! SAD! Some will be 80 years old before they can pay it back and it just obligated them to $100 or more a month or they could lose their home. Property tax law is written by the state and dictated how, when to assess, the Locals carry it out because it is the only taxation method other than fees and sales tax they can carry out. Last night June 19th (Juneteenth) in Mandan was the perfect example, 300 people protested spending $10 million adding to the almost $100 million dollars in debt. The commission decided the 30% affected was not a sufficient protest, the other 21% which would have made a majority must have not read the notice or maybe they were still at work at 5:30pm. Let's see if the Legislature will bully the less than majority vote on M2 and spend as they please.