Letter: Bismarck taxes are at reasonable level

I actually admire Marlan “Hawk” Haakenson, notably throughout winter snows. He’ll at all times be my good friend and HERO as the person who gave us these great snow gates, and he obtained it finished over the “kicking and screaming” of those that thought it might by no means work. An actual success for all of us.

However I can not help his petition to roll again property taxes. My daughters in Iowa and New Jersey pay far more taxes than we do. Ask folks you already know who pay taxes in different related measurement cities in America, and I wouldn’t be stunned if they’d gladly commerce tax payments with you.

Our taxes are cheap and applicable giving us this nice metropolis and county by which we now have made our houses. That is really greenback for greenback the most effective locations to dwell in America! I’m grateful yearly for our previous and current metropolis and county commissioners, faculty board and park board members. They’ve given us, they usually proceed to offer us, glorious police, fireplace, emergency companies; well-kept streets and parks; great faculties; our nice Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library; plentiful clear water and good sanitation; and accountable and devoted authorities in any respect ranges. We really feel very blessed to have lived, labored, retired, and raised our household in such a wonderful metropolis. What taxes we pay for every thing is just put, an actual discount! We’re not going wherever, as we all know that is one of the best place for us to dwell.

One of the simplest ways to indicate your help for our great metropolis and county is to NOT signal Hawk’s petition. I do know I gained’t signal it, and if it will get on the poll I’ll vote NO!