{"id":858,"date":"2004-12-22T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2004-12-22T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T07:18:09","slug":"wisconsin_madis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin, Madison Property Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles highlight the ongoing problem of state &#038; local taxes growing faster than Wisconsin personal income:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistax.org\/\">Wisconsin Taxpayer&#8217;s Alliance<\/a> released a study that forecasts 2005 property taxes will go up more than 6 percent.  They also forecast that the local school portion of property taxes will go up 7.3%.  They also found that property taxes will account for 4.1% of Wisconsin taxpayer&#8217;s personal income. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisinfo.com\/postcrescent\/news\/archive\/local_19123098.shtml\">JR Ross<\/a>)\n<li>Unsurprisingly, The Taxpayer Bill of Rights continues to be discussed in Madison.  This will continue to be a hot button issue as long as state and local spending continues to rise faster than personal incomes (there will be a reckoning unless the economy grows faster&#8230;., here&#8217;s an example: Judy Wagner, 65, a Milwaukee substitute teacher, said her property taxes were forcing her to postpone her retirement. Her property tax bill had risen from about $3,000 in 2000 to just under $4,700 now, she said.<br \/>\n&#8220;My options are to work until I&#8217;m 75 or 80 or sell my home and move south like three of my friends have,&#8221; she said.) Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/dec04\/286225.asp\">Patrick Marley &#038; Steven Walters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>This will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/dec04\/285991.asp\">help<\/a>, to some degree, though we must create a more robust environment for tax paying entrepreneurs.  True statewide, 2 way broadband (not the current slow DSL and cable modem services) and a much simplified tax\/paperwork process would be a great start.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several recent articles highlight the ongoing problem of state &#038; local taxes growing faster than Wisconsin personal income: Wisconsin Taxpayer&#8217;s Alliance released a study that forecasts 2005 property taxes will go up more than 6 percent. They also forecast that the local school portion of property taxes will go up 7.3%. They also found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}