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County Taxes

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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ith tlie advent of M. Bnrt the towa is llooded with circulará purporting to show tliat " taxes are twice as high under Luce is thcy werc seven years ago under Croswell." To do so the Burtites make the follownig tables: Property valuatlon in "Waslitennw : In 1880 i 30.5UO.000 Inl8S7 JÜ,50ü,0UO No Increaée in 7 years. State tax. Ia 1880 $ tajS'O Ia 18S7 62,0OU Incrcasc iu 7 years $23,500 or 61. Tlic trick In these figures is that au even year 1S80 is compared with an odd year, JSÖ7. To show the nbsurdity of tliose fijrures let us turn the calendar back one year and sec the resul t. State tax of WuMtMV: tOl8J9 $ 54,90(1,3 ( In 1886 38,147,70 Showing a decrease in the tax of ?1G,7G3,Gior 2% nearly. The property valuation had no increase and the state tax decreased nearly 3lfo. So it is with the valuation of the taxable property of Michigan: [n 187!) $ (30,000,000 Iu Hüjfi 1.},4ÖO,UW Increase of 60 The state taxes were: InlS79 $ 1,153,096.21 InlSSÜ 1,203,181.67 Increase of $49,003.40 or 4 . State tax of Washtenaw county: In 18W i 51.909.31 InlSSO 3S.325 31) Total 3,231.91 That heilig for the term of two years, ui. o .i tiUK.ii uuii tfKe-". In IOS autl '88 the state taxes of tho county have been $108,156 11, an increase or $14,921.83. 15ut iu the former yeais the iasane had to be supportud by the coupties, whereas now the state takes that burden. Further more the expenso of taking prisoneis to the prison has been transferred from the county to the state. Wasbtenaw piid for those itema In 1870 and '80, $5,510.24 In the county tase;?. In 1K87-88 the county taz was relieved of that and to the tate tax was addecl 933,830.74 makinr a difference hetween the first and la-t term of $17,320.50. But the real increase as shown above was only $H,!)21.S3, making a real reduction of $2,39 G7. So the taxes of the county have decreased inste.id ofincrp-.ised, ainl the state taxes for the last to ypars, exeept for these two items are $2,393 07 less than iu 1819-80. This lias been done while wc have built a Soldiers' Home, a Mining School, a northern prison, a northern asylum and an asyluni for insano crimináis at lonia. - all this, and decreased the taxes ot Washtenaw In the tneantiuie. Anyone who wishes can verify these statemenis at the auditor {leneral's office, where thcy were obtaincd.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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