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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 422657" data-attributes="member: 389">No need to go to the Turtle Mountain area, I can answer that as a rural Burleigh resident.&nbsp; My taxes have remained &quot;reasonable&quot; for the services I receive and what I pay.&nbsp; Well, I haven't opened this year's tax notice yet, but that's been the trend. So yes, I can say with pretty good certainty that the mill rate on my property taxes are less than yours if you live in Bismarck city limits.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because I don't want/need many of the things Bismarck residents demand of their politicians.&nbsp; No gated snowplows out here.&nbsp; I am also not on subsidized sewer and have no street lights, curbs, city sanitation, or gutters.&nbsp; I have to pay outright for all of those if I choose to have them, so I am not inclined to help pay for what the big city peeps are expecting, because lumping me in with them on another tax plan is exactly that, a plan to have me pay for what they receive. This is a HUGE attempt to transfer wealth via lumping rural and city dwellers together for paying for local govt services at a state level.&nbsp; Maybe if this passes, I'll sell my rural home and buy something in a more ritzy area of Bismarck so I'll get more govt services.&nbsp;&nbsp; After all, if I'm going to have to pay for it...I should at least get the benefits of it.&nbsp; Yep, I'll buy some river frontage and demand flood protection, city sewer, city water, city garbage rates, snowplows with gates to keep my driveway clear, and omnipresent law enforcement to keep the riffraff out will be just a few things I demand.&nbsp; Some nice boulevard trees for my front yard that I didn't have to personally buy from Cashman's would be nice as well.Yeah, this is very much a rural vs urban fight, and I'm on the side of rural.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 422657, member: 389"] No need to go to the Turtle Mountain area, I can answer that as a rural Burleigh resident. My taxes have remained "reasonable" for the services I receive and what I pay. Well, I haven't opened this year's tax notice yet, but that's been the trend. So yes, I can say with pretty good certainty that the mill rate on my property taxes are less than yours if you live in Bismarck city limits. Why? Because I don't want/need many of the things Bismarck residents demand of their politicians. No gated snowplows out here. I am also not on subsidized sewer and have no street lights, curbs, city sanitation, or gutters. I have to pay outright for all of those if I choose to have them, so I am not inclined to help pay for what the big city peeps are expecting, because lumping me in with them on another tax plan is exactly that, a plan to have me pay for what they receive. This is a HUGE attempt to transfer wealth via lumping rural and city dwellers together for paying for local govt services at a state level. Maybe if this passes, I'll sell my rural home and buy something in a more ritzy area of Bismarck so I'll get more govt services. After all, if I'm going to have to pay for it...I should at least get the benefits of it. Yep, I'll buy some river frontage and demand flood protection, city sewer, city water, city garbage rates, snowplows with gates to keep my driveway clear, and omnipresent law enforcement to keep the riffraff out will be just a few things I demand. Some nice boulevard trees for my front yard that I didn't have to personally buy from Cashman's would be nice as well. Yeah, this is very much a rural vs urban fight, and I'm on the side of rural. [/QUOTE]

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