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How much did your 2010 taxes really go up?
Use our handy Truthful Tax Calculator and find
out. Grab your 2010 Tax Statement and enter your Values
& Taxes and get the Truth. Print out a copy and take it with you Monday Dec
7th at 6 pm to City Hall and let your voice
be heard.
A Small Victory for Bloomington Taxpayers
By 12 Votes, District II put one Conservative on
the Council. A good start. Now it is time to keep the pressure on all your
elected officials and hold them accountable for their fiscal actions. After all IT IS YOUR MONEY, NOT
THEIRS! Are they being good
stewards with it? Would you entrust them with your Family Budget? Do not sit back and assume someone else is looking over their shoulder. Get involved! Show up at Council Meetings, let your voice be heard. They are civil servants and they work for you! You pay their salary, expect them to do a good job for you, or replace them with someone that will! Imagine if you knew your taxes were going to increase by 45% over the next
5 years. Would you do nothing and let it happen or would you take
action to stop it? "Save Bloomington" is a resident group,
along with the Republican Party of the 3rd Congressional District, that is
concerned with the massive city spending being pushed through City
Hall. During this economic crisis, now is not the right time for the
City of Bloomington to raise your taxes. 2010
Bloomington Proposed Budget
So will my taxes go up 45% in the next 5
years? Not if we can work together to stop it. When the Bloomington City
Council approved the 2009 budget, they included a chart with the possible
future/forecast of things to come. We would prefer that the City work
hard now to avoid these types of scenarios, rather than publish a document
that could scare potential developers and business investors. Our
property taxes make up about 68.3% of the revenue the City collects, here is
the chart in question, as you can see they show significant Property Tax Levy
Increases:
Source: http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/cityhall/dept/finance/budget/budget09_full.pdf
(Page 54 of the Budget, or page 66 of 273 of the PDF) Recently the Council only passed a 7.67%
Levy increase for 2010, isn't that good? No, an increase is still an increase for you and me, we need to see
cuts. The Council realizes it will see less revenue from permits,
licenses, hotel taxes, and other fees, so now it wants to come after us to
make up the difference, instead of making the cuts now to avoid coming after
us. Keep the pressure up, we have until Dec., when they have their
final levy vote. Keep calling the City Hall at 952-563-8782 to let them
know where you stand. How do we compare with other Cities? Not well, we are the 2nd highest taxed City in our class for Hennepin County:
*Source: http://www.lmc.org/page/1/property-tax-calc-iframe.jsp |
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