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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Ah...the Heritage Foundation.
No bias there.
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Nice example of ad hominem attack, dc. Of course, this thread is full of it. I mean full of them.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
.....Yeah, no. That's my point. What the fuck are they paying in property taxes in Colorado Springs?
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Colorado Springs taxes from my own research: (before the failed increase)
Total property taxes on a 200,000 house in different areas of Colorado Springs.
Harrison School District 2 levies a tax of 41.409 mills, for a grand total of 58.584 mills and a total bill of $932.65.
Widefield School District 3 levies 47.683 mills, for a total of 64.858 mills and a total bill of $1,032.52.
The total for School District 11, after the addition of a levy of 42.331 mills for a total of 59.506 mills, is $947.33.
Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 levies a tax of 42.331 mills, for a total of 61.969 mills and a total of $986.54.
And Academy School District 20 adds 60.216 mills for a total of 77.391 mills and a payment of $1,232.06.
(from Colorado Springs business Journal, Sept. 25, 2009)
They seem pretty low to me. But more than a pittance. In rural Kansas, property tax rate is about double that.
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Originally Posted by james t kirk
.....My property taxes are almost exactly $5,000.oo a year.
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Without knowing your property value, that figure doesn't have much meaning. $5000 on a $100,000 house would be outrageous.
$5000 on a million dollar property would truly be a pittance.
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Originally Posted by Jinn
Wow, an article that I'm actually relevantly tied to!
Seeing as how I live in Colorado Springs, I actually saw this first hand and was really dissapointed with the budget cuts and the ballot issues that people voted against simply because it might mean giving an extra 12 cents a month to that horrible, evil government......
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Maybe you're just exaggerating (or is it minimizing,) but if you call the population of the Springs at 400,00 then giving 12 cents per person per month ought to give the city another $576,000 per year. If that's all they need to solve the city's problems, then they really are a bunch of pikers. Or Pike's Peakers.
Lindy