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Mayor’s Race: Tax Fight Off and Running

By   /   July 19, 2012  /   10 Comments

OMAHA—When Mayor Jim Suttle pushed out his “no new taxes” budget this week he kicked-off a major issue in next spring’s city election.

Nebraska Watchdog’s Joe Jordan with round one of a 10 month fight.

Reported by Joe Jordan, joe@nebraskawatchdog.org

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  • Biff

    Strothert campaigns on tax cuts even though the city pays more for fuel, pays more for insurance premiums on city properties, pays more for concrete and asphalt; pays more for office supplies today than it did a few months ago. Costs continue to rise on every front.

    Even if you don’t consider the cost of paying the good folks who work hard for the city, the cost of doing business is simply going up. Suttle would do well to hold the tax line in that battle. Strothert is simply trying to win votes with a pledge that sounds great, but is unrealistic in these difficult times.

  • Patrick

    Cutting taxes sounds great!! It won’t matter though if streets don’t get plowed, trash isn’t picked up and pot holes don’t get filled.

  • http://nebraskawatchdog resistwemuch

    Good job Biff ande Patrick: Spewing typical democrat talking points handed to you by union operatives is really a sign of high intelligence. Get original for a change.

  • Bill

    office supplies, that’s good, who are we going to tax for those increases we incur. Can’t wait for the spin on the Unicameral tax gift he got to kick in, Mayor, County, State, they can’t stop giving away and spending.

  • Dirt

    I don’t like Suttle but I’ve seen the property tax data he refers to and what he said is correct. The property tax levy was left much lower than the historical norm for too long and it put the city in a real pinch when those chickens came home to roost. Not unlike the overly generous fire/police pension plans agreed to in the halcyon days of the 1990s.

  • Watching From Lincoln

    The exact same property tax levy rate debacle that then Mayor Mike Johanns implemented when he was mayor here in Lincoln, a debacle that we are still trying to deal with the aftermath of a decade later.

  • Bill1

    I don’t hear anything about dealing with the Fire Pension Fund, Police Pension Fund, or pushing back on the sewer separation costs! When was the last time the city had a performance audit? I got a feeling there is a lot of room to economize without dramatically affecting services.dsa

  • Jazzee

    well then why do some keep electing the same fools over and over???

  • BkDodge42

    @Dirt, what you say could be correct if the tax base did not increase from those days. What ever happened to the annexation of Elkhorn? Didn’t that bring in more tax revenue for the city? Increase the tax base and you can decrease the levy and still bring in the same amount of revenue.

  • Jazzee

    Where is Joe’s story about the $25000 raise suttle wants to give his assistant?????????????????????? Is suttle brain dead?He better not ever come to the taxpayers about how the city has no money..what a fool he is