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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sluggo" data-source="post: 434167" data-attributes="member: 667">I agree that those that complained that the measure didn’t specify where the money comes from may not understand how things work. And I’m no expert either but my understanding is that the measure would have updated the state constitution and the constitution basically contains do’s and don’ts. So the constitution could prevent us from being taxed on our property’s assessed value. Once that happens, then steps could have been taken to come up with the new process for them to get their pound of flesh. That part would not be appropriate in the constitution. This is currently in the ND constitution:ARTICLE XFINANCE AND PUBLIC DEBTSection 1. The legislative assembly shall be prohibited from raising revenue to defray theexpenses of the state through the levying of a tax on the assessed value of real or personalproperty.This sounds to me like the constitution already prevents the state from imposing our current property tax process. Notice it just contains the “don’t”, it doesn’t say how the state will collect money such as by income tax, fees, other taxes, etc.  The measure would have expanded this to prevent all entities (state, county and city) from taxing us on an assessed value. We should have approved the measure, it was step 1 in fixing this mess.</blockquote>