Is A Lack Of State Funding Really The Problem With Local Property Taxes?

As we’ve debated the property tax issue in North Dakota many – including local officials who don’t want to admit that they’re the problem, liberals who want more central government control and “Republicans” like Governor John Hoeven who just want to throw money at the problem – claim that the problem has to do with too little state funding. But the simple fact of the matter is that despite increasing amounts of state spending at the local level, property taxes have still continued to skyrocket.
Courtesy of the North Dakota Policy Council, here’s the rise in state spending at the local level over the last decade:

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And here’s skyrocketing property tax collections over the last two decades:
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What this means is that state spending at the local level has increased, but local spending funded by local property taxes has increased even faster. Meaning the problem with property taxes is not a paucity of funding from the state, but rather out of control spending at the local level.
Rein in that spending, and we can rein in property taxes.

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  • http://Array jimmypop

    We had our property taxes raised 4 yrs. in a row. Kind of a coincidence, Those were the times we voted on not raising school leveies. Neat, they give a false hope by thinking we can vote on this. If we vote it down, what do they do at the county level?? Raise our property taxes and give it to the schools any way!!!

    I told them to sell my house for the tax appraised value, and I would give them 4%. They said it dose’nt work that way. Just keep raising the tax because they can!!

    so vote them out if you dont like it. then you let me know when you can vote the whole senate and house out of office for spending billions of dollars. the problem is not the locals… its he state libricans.

  • SHADY

    We had our property taxes raised 4 yrs. in a row. Kind of a coincidence, Those were the times we voted on not raising school leveies. Neat, they give a false hope by thinking we can vote on this. If we vote it down, what do they do at the county level?? Raise our property taxes and give it to the schools any way!!!

    I told them to sell my house for the tax appraised value, and I would give them 4%. They said it dose’nt work that way. Just keep raising the tax because they can!!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I think the issue is that the state is spending more on local issues because of all the grief that they’ve been getting because of high property taxes.

    Of course the property taxes don’t go down, so the greedy school boards keep spending more and more money while enrollment is falling precipitously.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    ND’s blue hairs and greedy geezers vote the same way every time!

  • jimmypop

    um…… sorry, but its STATE growth thats the real problem here. why do these libricans keep getting a pass here? they increased spending 23% last session and now up to 28% this time…. yet you still pick on the locals? seriously? we control our local government and their spending 100%. whereas we can only vote for our district folks and our liberal governor to control state spending. we my property taxes go up 12% per year twice, followed by two years 14%, ill care about what you post. until then, i think we should spend our energy on getting the libricans out of office.

    also a big thing your missing… lots of your ‘state aid’ is pass thru from the feds for mandated programs.

  • jimmypop

    ND’s blue hairs and greedy geezers vote the same way every time!

    this post was about the locals spending too much…. we have total control over the local folks. while at the same time we have little control over billions being spent. the state libricans want to push local limits on us by telling us local government is out of control while at the same time they press for MONSTER increase after monster increase. i love to see how theyd react i the feds wanted to limit their growth to 2%. heck, i know id be happy to have my 19% (23% increase last time) and 24% (28% increase this time) back in my pocket.

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