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a little victory over the evildoers 2009-01-22 - 6:07 p.m. Finally. Finally. Finally! I was just beginning to wonder what lawyer we would have to call or what unnecessary expense we would have to incur to get our house properly appraised, when I checked on the assessor's site and discovered that she has finally -- finally! -- accepted the decision of the Parish Council. Whew. However, plenty of other houses around are still way over-assessed, and if you are a Louisiana homeowner, I strongly encourage you to sign the petition to have the exemption increased to reflect the intent of the original legislation. The current exemption of $75,000 was set in 1980, and should be adjusted to $160,000 to reflect the inflation in the passage of almost 30 years. Don't be fooled by arguments that we somehow "need" high property taxes. We have the highest sales taxes in the nation here in St. Tammany Parish, and they're almost as high in Orleans and Jefferson. We also have a exceptionally high state income tax for an oil-producing state. We even have a state lottery. We have pretty much every form of taxation known to man, and it's killing starter/modest neighhorboods. Some of these taxes need to go away, and as the original intent of the legislature was to encourage homeownership and to put a high property tax only on the homes of the well-to-do, then I think we need to go back to that. It isn't like they're ever going to roll back the sales tax, so we've got to catch a break somewhere, right? So this year the assessor goes crazy and values everyone's house, including ours, much above what any house in the neighborhood ever sold for -- and this in a recession! We complained to her and got it knocked down some but not enough, then went to the Parish Council and actually got it knocked down to a price that it could actually sell for, if houses were selling at all, which of course they're not. Then the assessor rejected the appeals and tried to have them over-ruled by the state. By this time, it had become obvious that there was bad blood between the assessor and the Parish Council, and we could tell we were caught in the middle of something, but we couldn't figure out what. Well, a reporter from the Times-Picayune did figure it out. Son of a bee. The parish president announced that the way to lower taxes was to vote in a casino in Slidell. I mean, hello, wtf? No tax was ever lowered in the state of Louisiana because a casino came open, and, in any case, we've already voted on this topic, and far from welcoming a casino, I seem to remember that we voted to yank out the video poker machines that were already here. The parish can't tolerate the casino traffic. We can barely get where we're going as it is. And why did they concoct this elaborate scheme to push a casino in Slidell? I mean, would you like it to be known that you were carrying cash in the Slidell area? But, hey, as it turns out, the parish president's best friend owns the (no doubt otherwise worthless swamp) land where they plan to put the casino. Welly, welly, well. For crap's sake, put 'em all in jail. I'm pretty sure that extortion is just illegal and wrong. So, at the end of the day, either the state told the assessor to go to hell or she woke up on her own and realized what she looked like, but anyway, she finally fixed our assessment. For now, anyway. Stay tuned for next year's exciting adventures. It's sad because we actually thought the Parish President was a reasonable guy, after the incident of the drainage problem following the storm of July 20,2003, but no. Any time you think a Republican is actually decent, you are just wrong and being played. It just takes longer to find out, with some people, than it does with other people. Reagan, Bush, and Cheney wore their evil on their face, as far as I was concerned, but with some people it just ain't that easy to tell. � 2001 by elaine radford when peanut butter is outlawed, only outlaws will have peanut butter back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford