TAXES: Same script, one empty wallet
The Post Falls City Council just raised your property taxes 4%, plus a 3% levy, on a 6–0 vote. On August 26, Kootenai County goes for another 3%. And Coeur d’Alene? Working on its fourth straight year of increases, because why stop a winning streak when nobody’s watching? I’m challenging these and they all read from the same script.
Every one of them blames House Bill 389. It passed in 2021. A five-year-old law isn’t a surprise, it’s a planning parameter they’ve had half a decade to absorb. Every one blames health insurance, the county’s $1.8 million, the city’s 15%; as if rising premiums don’t hit every family and business here, none of whom get to tax a neighbor to cover them.
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