Net Property Taxes Lowest In Nine Years

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Well, well: Doyle holds down property taxes
It must have killed the folks at the Wisconsin Taxpayer Alliance to issue this release:

Net Property Tax Increase Smallest in Nine Years WISTAX Examines 2005-06 Property Taxes

MADISON—Wisconsin’s net property taxes, the sum of all property tax levies minus the state’s school levy credit, rose 2.3% to $7.86 billion in 2005-06. Due to a large infusion of state school aid, the increase was the smallest in nearly a decade. This is a key finding of a new Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX) study, "Property Taxes in 2005-06." WISTAX is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to public-policy research and citizen education.The "large inhusion of state school aid," of course, came because Gov. Jim Doyle's budget veto restored something like $350-million the Republican legislature had cut from public schools. Rep. Mark Green would have signed it. Remember that next time Green says he'll lower your taxes.