Rep. Mike Beard Raised Your Taxes
Yes. That’s right. Representative Mike Beard campaigned for his first election with a promise to the voters that he would hold the line on taxes. Unfortunately, that just didn’t happen for most residents of Scott County. The record is that Rep. Beard voted tax breaks for a favored few in Scott County and then raised taxes on the rest of us. So we are paying more.
After taking office in 2003, Mr. Beard voted to cut income taxes for less than 350 Scott Country households (those with annual incomes exceeding $365,000). After giving a break to a few, he voted to increase fees (for permits, licenses, tabs, etc.) to the tune of $1.2 billion. Rep. Beard claimed that fees were not taxes, so therefore he didn’t “raise taxes” and violate his campaign promise. Does that sound like a word game to you? The word game is over today. Check the mikebeard.org website as he admits that fees really are, and really were, taxes all along. His website backs away from calling the mislabeling a “gimmick”. Well, if not a gimmick, then what was it?
Most Scott County residents have seen their property taxes rise sharply. You can thank Rep. Beard for much of that rise. He voted to shift state funding over to your local property taxes helping drive property taxes up an average of 70% since he took office. He voted to shift more education funding to local property taxes doubling school charges on your property taxes. When it came time in 2007 to restore the unnecessary tax cut to the wealthiest few in Scott County, Rep. Beard voted ’no’ showing again that he favors the very few in the district. Then he voted against legislation to provide property tax relief. Rep. Mike Beard: Friend to the Scott County taxpayer? Actually, not.
Check the record. Mike Beard: Favor the Few, Tax the Many. more
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November 16th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
My property tax has gone up from 1.05% to 1.09%. they di take into account the diminished property value, but I hardly saw any effect on my actaul tax $ amount! This is rediculous. It makes me all the more to just foreclose and run away from the property.