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Property Tax Alert ❗ Your Home is Paying the Price

By: Charlotte O’Hara, Johnson County 3rd District Commissioner
This does not reflect the majority viewpoint of the JoCo BOCC

When Mike Kelly, the uber liberal Democrat chairman of the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, and rank and file Republican legislators spew forth the exact same talking points on the wonders of corporate welfare…That’s a Problem.

During Thursday mornings’ Johnson County Board of County Commissioners’

meetings, I listen to Chairman Kelly’s diatribe litany of supposed blessings bestowed

upon the community through corporate welfare which consists of one set of rules for the high and mighty: thou shalt NOT pay your fair share of property or sales tax and another set of rules for us: thou shalt be OVERBURDENED and every last dime of income, sales and property tax (levied upon you by both the Republicans and Democrats) thou shalt pay!!!….That’s a Problem.

 

Republicans, having voted for the Star Bond giveaway to the Chiefs and Royals, stammer and beg understanding that they HAD to participate in corporate welfare, because everyone else does!!!! Don’t we tell our kids not to follow the crowd???? This is BEYOND REPREHENSIBLE/UNFORGIVABLE abuse of YOU, the taxpayer…That’s a Problem.

Corporate welfare includes, but this is far from a complete list:

  1. Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs-property and sales tax exemptions), full disclosure, I used an IRB for a 50% property tax abatement in 2004, a mistake which cost me approximately $600,000.00 when my tenant left for another abatement in 2014. Free market capitalism works, cronyism corporate welfare does not.
  2. Tax Increment Finance (through a TIF, property tax payments go back todeveloper/owner to pay for infrastructure)
  3. Star Bonds (sales tax generated by development pays for billionaires’ projects)

“Taxes for thee, but not for me”, mentality is decimating our tax base by diverting nearly $100 million annually from Johnson County public coffers just in IRB and TIF property tax giveaways to the big boys. This does not include Star Bond subsidies….

That’s a Problem.

These are SCAMS with applications filled with boiler plate talking points. These are

ALL hatched to transfer wealth from YOUR pocket to billionaires’ pockets. Republicans and Democrats have converged on this MEGA GIVEAWAY policy called economic development. Meanwhile no one represents the folks, YOUR pocketbook…

That’s a Problem.

Houston, WE have a problem.

 

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