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The new tax revolt.
IT has hardly received notice in the national media, but a tax revolt is breaking out all over America. In Florida, for example, the house and senate have separately passed property-tax-reform plans that would either reduce or eliminate property taxes altogether. Last year, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Idaho cut property taxes. New York, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island granted larger property-tax rebates and capped annual increases. Texas passed a $15.7 billion property-tax cut. Georgia's legislature just approved a $142 million property-tax cut, awaiting signature from Governor Perdue. Why, even Connecticut is on the move.
This stealthy revolt may ...
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- Magazine article from: National Review September 12, 1986 700+ words
The Tax Revolt Lives WHEN HOWARD JARVIS teamed up with Paul Gann to limit property taxes in California, few people dreamed that the tax revolt would spread to Washington, D.C. But it has...
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- Newspaper article from: Sun (Yuma, AZ) June 1, 2006 700+ words
...statewide initiative on the ballot to cap property taxes will have two more chances to do so...Rodney Martin said. The Arizona Tax Revolt Initiative seeks to roll back residential property taxes to 2003 levels starting in 2007. A...
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- Magazine article from: National Review June 22, 2009 700+ words
California has historically been a good place to start a tax revolt. The 1978 passage of Proposition 13, which capped property taxes and contained language requiring a two-thirds majority for any tax increase, prompted similar measures in other...
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- Magazine article from: Northern Ontario Business McDougall, Douglas September 1, 1991 700+ words
...a successful tax revolt in that southern...explanation of whey his property taxes increased by...the Blenheim tax revolt, according to...resolution to freeze property taxes to 1990 rates...to organize a tax revolt, the response...
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- Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer Watts, Jim July 17, 2007 700+ words
...raise money through property taxes would have their revenues...calling itself Arizona Tax Revolt. The property tax...jurisdictions. Primary property taxes cannot be more than...spokesman for Arizona Tax Revolt said if the referendum...
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- Newspaper article from: Sun (Yuma, AZ) June 7, 2006 700+ words
...7--Volunteers with the Arizona Tax Revolt are making their final push to get...ballot initiative that would roll back property taxes in the state. Conrad Ballweg, coordinator...initiative seeks to roll back residential property taxes to the year 2003 and put a cap on taxes...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Howard Kurtz July 1, 1989 700+ words
...announced last winter that property taxes would be rising 16...an old-fashioned tax revolt that swept across...petitions demanding lower property taxes. Nearly half of the...affluent counties. Property taxes long have been the...
- Property Taxes and Tax Revolts.
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Lowery, David March 1, 1996 700+ words
...Massachusetts opted for severe cuts in property taxes during the tax revolt, and Massachusetts did not...it can tell us little about property taxes more generally or about the causes and consequences of the tax revolt as experienced across the...
Source: HighBeam Research, The new tax revolt.