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Message: <blockquote data-quote="7mmMag" data-source="post: 421574" data-attributes="member: 1188">Lets looks at property taxes, roughly 50% go to school systems and the rest go to public safety(fire,law enforcement and ems), public works(road maintenance, water departments, etc, and community services(libraries, parks, etc).  I will gladly pay property taxes knowing that is what they are going to. I live in a rural community and we are extremely dependent on property taxes. In these tight knit rural communities the governmental bodies are usually ran by well known, upstanding community members that truly want what best for the community and they use property taxes for the good of the community. Big cities obviously are not this way, the bigger the city the more corrupt it becomes, in my opinion.Lets say measure 4 passes and now there isn't property taxes and its up to the state to find and delegate funds accordingly. They aren't going to find this money out of thin air, so a new tax of some sort will be implemented. After the new tax is implemented the state will have the needed funds. How is this new tax going to be assessed? Do you people really trust the state government to allocate those funds properly? Rural communities are going to suffer tremendously. The state will give the vast majority of the funds to the big cities and the rural communities will be left to scavenge the remains.I understand the argument of "You don't truly own your property if there are property taxes". But until there is a bill that truly defines how the state is going to find the funds needed and how they will be allocated, voting yes on measure 4 is pure selfishness. You people aren't looking at the big picture implications if this bill passes, all you're thinking about is the short term extra dollars in your pocket.</blockquote>

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