Mangano lowers boom

[Unregistered324242]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL. So he will reacess everyones home to a lower amount but WONT reduce your taxes . LOL SO so now nobody can grieve their taxes anymore and nobody get s a tax break. Suozzi , Mangano , makes no diffrence. What a bunch of gullable morons you tax revolt fools are

[TiredString]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL. So he will reacess everyones home to a lower amount but WONT reduce your taxes . LOL SO so now nobody can grieve their taxes anymore and nobody get s a tax break. Suozzi , Mangano , makes no diffrence. What a bunch of gullable morons you tax revolt fools are

Maggano wont do anything unless Joe Mondello tells him to do so.

If Ed had any guts at all, he tell Sloppy Joe to go "f" himself.

Nassau County is going to hell - Magano better have a plan or his sorry ass and the Nassau GOP will be out again in four years.

[Unregisteredrep]

^^^^Silly disgruntled Dem.....^^^^

[School Expenses]

Cut back on government waste and reign in school budgets and property owners will be able to breath again. Time to put a stop to the out of control salaries and perks that go to school staff who don't even put in a full calender year of work. When a special needs teacher roughly 50 who makes $122,000.00 a year in salary and is sitting on a $300,000.00 401k plan and not to mention the pension which will no doubt come in at about $100,000.00 a year you know something is wrong. The school budget salaries are choking people out of the region and that in itself is a crime against the community and it's people.

[Unregisteredgura]

myth-fixing assessment lowers taxes- truth- only lowering spending will lower taxes. why- assessments only allocate the tax burden among properties. High value houses should obviously have a higher assessment and a higher tax burden-ie- a home valued at $1.5million in Locust Valley should pay three times more in County taxes than a home valued at $500,000 in East Meadow. If it doesn't then there's an assessment problem, which causes a tax allocation problem.

myth- eliminating special districts will lower taxes. truth- areas not part of the special district will see taxes rise if a special district is eliminated because the cost to provide services to the special district will be spread among a greater number of households- especially if the residents of the special district expect to keep services at the pre-elimination level.

[Unregisteredgura]

myth-fixing assessment lowers taxes- truth- only lowering spending will lower taxes. why- assessments only allocate the tax burden among properties. High value houses should obviously have a higher assessment and a higher tax burden-ie- a home valued at $1.5million in Locust Valley should pay three times more in County taxes than a home valued at $500,000 in East Meadow. If it doesn't then there's an assessment problem, which causes a tax allocation problem. Lowering assessments across the board doesn't solve the inequitable distribution of the burden, its merely a trick to fool voters into thinking their properties are undervalued, therefore, undertaxed.

myth- eliminating special districts will lower taxes. truth- areas not part of the special district will see taxes rise if a special district is eliminated because the cost to provide services to the special district will be spread among a greater number of households- especially if the part of the deal was to keep services at the pre-elimination level.

Ed Mangano has to make sure the assessment system allocates the burden equitably and work on cutting spending. He also needs to jettison the Suozzi era special district blame game.

[Unregistered Guest]

Assessment and Reassessment!

The point is properties should be assessed at their proper value. Tax Grievences cost Nassau County over $100,000,000 a year. Because Nassau County is the Property Tax Assessing Authority it is responsibile for the total cost of wrong assessments. Nassau County only receives about 22% of property taxes, Schools receive 65%, the Towns, Villages, and Special Districts get the rest.

Because about 85% of Nassau County Costs are Mandatory (Police, Corrections, D.A., Social Services, Hospital, Sewers, Roads, ect. The only costs Nassau County can eliminate are the nice services that we receive; Parks, Beaches, Museums, Senior Programs, Veterans Programs.

Yes, there is always some waste in Government. Someone not doing their Job properly. But it's not a systemic problem. Maybe 1/10 of 1% of County Employees fall into this group, similar to the private sector.

The County Executive's Plan is to bring intelligent, knowledgeable Residents and Business People together to eliminate or greatly reduce the Tax Grievences. Saving the County Residents and Property Owners $100 million dollars a year.

Because Property Tax Lawyers are earning over $50,000,000 a year by filing millions of Greivences every year. They will fight any changes in the Assessment Policy in Court. So it must be done properly.

As a Taxpayer, I was pissed about Souzzi claiming that he wasn't raising taxes, yet was creating new taxes, increasing user fees. The Energy Tax is one example. And the Red Light Tax was just a big fat lie. They pushed it thru claiming it was a Public Safety Issue and would save lives. But in other Cities it is documented to have cost lives. But it was only put thru for it's financial value. 1.) Why weren't these Cameras installed at the deadliest Intersections in Nassau County? 2.) Why weren't they spread evenly across the County? 3.) Why do County Vehicles have electronic devices that allows them to pass thru without triggering the Camera?

[Unregisteredpdq]

Above poster is right.

Re-assessment and fixing real values is just the first steop - it stops the bleeding of tax certs that are caused by the inappropriate values.

The next step is to address out of control school spending and excess spending (less of a problem) in other parts of governemnt. Without spending cuts and reductions, the taxes will NOT go down, regardless of the assessment issue.

But real and right assessments is crucial to stop the $100mm bleeding.

Imagine what the county could do with the money it now spends on tax certs.

[UnregisteredInteresting]

Surprisingly this post has become a very intelligent discussion....sorry used to the partisan bickering.

Back to our movie....

I agree, the tax system in Nassau County has at its core the issue of out-of-control school taxes. The County, Town and Village (for those in Incorporated areas) makes up a small percentage of your total tax bill. It is the school tax that is approximately 67-68% of the total bill. Until something is done about how schools are run on Long Island, the tax issue will be an ever present problem. The residents just cannot afford it.

Is a County wide school district the answer? Maybe a County oversight entity, but leave the individual districts intact, but have them run by a centralized authority? This is something that has to be looked at.

Superintendents on Long Island make over 250,000, have car, and housing allowances. How is that possible? Not to mention the assistant Superintendents, etc. Do the teachers make enough...it depends upon the district. Cutting the fat from the top will have an immediate effect. Having a centralized authority will also pool the purchasing resources of the districts as well, and will help with State and Federal aide issues.

Something to look at.

[StopNGo]

Assessment and Reassessment!

The point is properties should be assessed at their proper value. Tax Grievences cost Nassau County over $100,000,000 a year. Because Nassau County is the Property Tax Assessing Authority it is responsibile for the total cost of wrong assessments. Nassau County only receives about 22% of property taxes, Schools receive 65%, the Towns, Villages, and Special Districts get the rest.

Because about 85% of Nassau County Costs are Mandatory (Police, Corrections, D.A., Social Services, Hospital, Sewers, Roads, ect. The only costs Nassau County can eliminate are the nice services that we receive; Parks, Beaches, Museums, Senior Programs, Veterans Programs.

Yes, there is always some waste in Government. Someone not doing their Job properly. But it's not a systemic problem. Maybe 1/10 of 1% of County Employees fall into this group, similar to the private sector.

The County Executive's Plan is to bring intelligent, knowledgeable Residents and Business People together to eliminate or greatly reduce the Tax Grievences. Saving the County Residents and Property Owners $100 million dollars a year.

Because Property Tax Lawyers are earning over $50,000,000 a year by filing millions of Greivences every year. They will fight any changes in the Assessment Policy in Court. So it must be done properly.

As a Taxpayer, I was pissed about Souzzi claiming that he wasn't raising taxes, yet was creating new taxes, increasing user fees. The Energy Tax is one example. And the Red Light Tax was just a big fat lie. They pushed it thru claiming it was a Public Safety Issue and would save lives. But in other Cities it is documented to have cost lives. But it was only put thru for it's financial value. 1.) Why weren't these Cameras installed at the deadliest Intersections in Nassau County? 2.) Why weren't they spread evenly across the County? 3.) Why do County Vehicles have electronic devices that allows them to pass thru without triggering the Camera?

Where does one purchase the electronic devices to circumvent the red light cameras?

[Unregisterediweour]

Where does one purchase the electronic devices to circumvent the red light cameras?

Ask the NRA