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Originally Posted by kgoerz
Has anyone Else's usual refunds turn into a debt this year. Seems like they didn't raise taxes. But changed the laws to get more money out of us.
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I'm sure it varies state to state. In my circumstance I noticed that my local property tax went up a bit, which I have no problem with because my overall state tax burden went down and money is coming back. Locally we allocate those monies toward the things we feel are locally important.
Sidebar: View in this state is coming around (slowly) to locales knowing how to do 'X' with their money better than the state. (How long the crying lasts before these locales get off their arses varies.) Acquaintance in bedroom-suburb of Madison whining because now her little ritzy burg isn't "getting any more state subsidies for trash pickup." I agreed with her that refuse removal and some other things were valuable; then asked her to explain why I should have to pay for picking up her trash 100 miles away. I then ventured that perhaps her little enclave needed to sit down & decide what's important & where they should allocate their dollars if the trough they'd been feeding at wasn't going to be as full now that some of the working stiffs in the rest of the state weren't paying for picking up the trash generated by $600,000 condos. She did
not accept my offer of a consoling cup of coffee...
Shuckee-darn.
