[Winona] Property Taxes Over Last Four Years: Star Tribune Article

[Kelly Herold]

Cost of living and inflation eat up many of our taxes ­ but to be honest the
tax breaks given to the top 1% of our citizenship is the price we all pay.

In Minnesota alone around 25,000 folks making 300,000 or more have realized
an overall tax decrease while those in the shrinking middle class have seen
a tax increase.  

The fee based initiatives also shift much of the tax burden to the middle
class.  

When CEO are retiring with 100+ million packages and other compensation
sweatheart deals the middle class continues to work itself to death.

Some would argue that the super rich create jobs and I agree.  But the
overall job creation, are over the past decade, undeniably moving towards
less paying, low benefit service jobs.  The productivity realize by industry
can be attributed to mainly two things ­ increased hours of current workers
and shipping jobs overseas.


As a result ­ the shared cost of sky rocketing health care, inflated
housing, and unfair tax burden continues to
erode the back bone of America, Minnesota and small communities like Winona.

Kelly

On 10/18/06 6:47 AM, "LindaF" <lbfort at ridge-runner.com> wrote:

> [Winona Online Democracy]
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> While I don't doubt your numbers are correct I don't think you are comparing
> apples to apples.
> My daughter and son in law live in Onalaska.  I am going to look at her tax
> statement the next time I am at her house.   I believe they are paying higher
> taxes in Wisconsin because more is taken out of that fund for various projects
> than in Minnesota.
>  
> Linda Fort
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>> [Winona Online Democracy]
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>> While I know that residential property taxes have gone up, especially  last
>> year with the school referendum, please keep in mind that homestead  property
>> taxes in Minnesota are less than half on a comparably valued home in
>> LaCrosse. I checked the LaCrosse County web site this morning and a house
>> valued at $183,000 had taxes of $4,700. A house in Winona at that value
>> carried a 2006 property tax of just less than $2,000.
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>> My  point--While the increases sure seem to be a bad trend, it could always
>> be  worse.
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>> Stephen Hacken
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>> Winona County Assessor
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