As manufacturers get tax reductions, Wisconsin homeowners pay more

[TexasTowelie]

MANAWA - Larry Squires distinctly remembers how he felt when he got his annual property tax bill in the mail in December.

Taxes on his Manawa home went up nearly 14 percent, an increase of more than $260.

“I definitely wasn’t happy about it,” Squires said.

Neither were many of Manawa's roughly 1,300 residents, who haven't been shy in letting local officials know their displeasure with the tax hike, Mayor John Smith said.

A key reason residents’ taxes went up: Property taxes on the largest employer in town, Sturm Foods, went down.

Read more: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/02/22/manufacturers-get-tax-breaks-wisconsin-homeowners-pay-more/1019201001/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. For all of those DUers in Sconny,

we saw this coming. We are going to dump the our small parcel,unemproved Stumpage five acres now considered Recreational carrying a new Tax of $3100 +. Enough already,only paid 1500 for this in 1977.

[riversedge]

2. more tricle down taxes for the less well off.

[dembotoz]

3. scotty and the thuglicans will claim property taxes are local so not their fault, point to tax cuts

and babble about feeling their pain but they are blameless...

the sheep will believe him
they always do.