Sate Rep. John Cabello Aims To Freeze State Property Taxes
By: Nick McGill
Updated: February 17, 2013
For the past few
years it hasn't been easy to be a homeowner. Decreases in property value couple with
increases in property tax has spelled diasater for Stateline residents. so to
help ease the burden 68th representative john Cabello has introduce legislation
that would give homeowners some much needed relief, because as Cabello put it.".
we're taxing people out of their homes."
Cabello says even
before he was a state rep, he always heard the same thing from local residents, they're property taxes were way too
high. As he told us ".hearing that over and over again, its time to do
something about it...if the state gets rid of these taxes more people will have
more money in their pocket so hopefully, number one they'll save more and
number two they'll spend more if they have it .."
The proposed bill
would freeze property tax rates for the next five years, and while he admits
that would mean less money for the state, he says its money they don't need,
adding "..believe it or not
A problem
that he says needs to be reigned in soon, as for the bill itself Cabello
says its gained some support from both sides of the aisle but given the house's history for dragging their feet he
admits it might be a struggle getting
the bill passed, but he told us, ".I'm going to fight as hard as i
can to make sure that it does, if it doesn't I'm going to intro duce it again
and again until we finally get like minded people to understand tax payers come
first ."
