Local Reassessment

Reading the local bloggers it does not surprise me more of the bloggers are not outraged by the latest reassessment conducted by their local assessor office. No one wants to be seen as the trouble maker or the whistle blower. It is not a beauty picture. Ask Valerie Plame whom identity was revealed by an aide to Richard B. Cheney to reporters. Of course Plame has finally been validated with Libby being found guilty. But Plame's face is known to the world, now.

And look at the War in Iraq. Voters are now aware that the President lied. But the troopers are still fighting the war, and the Democrats and the Republicans are still bickering about whose fault it is. It's both parties fault.

Now back to the local reassessment. True these local government folks are not appraisers. But that's what they did. Who said that local officials were qualified for their position? Who? These folks took a look at market values in your area, not necessarily in your neighborhood and smashed a price on it. Trending value is what they called it, to up the ante on collecting more money from the value of your home. Is your home that value? No! Is that lying? Yep! So what are you going to do about it?

First you will compare with your neighbors and see if they got screwed more than you in the reassessment. Next you will rationalize in you mind for justifying why you would allow incompetent people to lie to you about the worth of your property without taking any actions.

You'll say things, like well I was able to get exemptions to reduce my liabilities. Whereas the other suckers not qualifying for such exemptions are gonna pay more. Not.

You'll see things like, well my taxes stayed the same, so I don't care. Wrong.

I know folks in the blogosphere took simply math, I just know they did. So please example to me, why they are not raising cane about the reassessment in the blogosphere. But they can yell all day about that dang gone George Bush, Jr. Bush, Jr. ain't the only one stealing your money out of your family pockets.

What you are screaming about Bush doing is the exact same thing local folks, politics is doing. It's local folks.