Comments on: Del. Iaquinto’s bill helping homeowners passes House

By: Sal Iaquinto

Sal Iaquinto — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:39:39 +0000

Thanks for the post on this bill. This is an important piece of legislation which faces an uphill battle in the Senate. If you want to see this bill pass please let the Senators know how you feel. There is no reason an already difficult process should be made more challenging for the taxpayer.

By: ShaunKenney.com » I support HB 570

ShaunKenney.com » I support HB 570 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:12:11 +0000

[...] Bearing Drift has the great news: Currently, when a taxpayer believes he is being overcharged, he faces an uphill battle because the government’s assessment is presumed to be correct in any appeal. Iaquinto’s bill would lift that burden off the taxpayer by simply requiring the government official to demonstrate how the assessment was calculated. [...]

By: SuperChicken1

SuperChicken1 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:04:12 +0000

Go Sal!

By: Brian Kirwin

Brian Kirwin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:17:17 +0000

Maybe we could do a “Where are they now” about people who used to be involved in the Second District.

Stick to topics, please.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:22:10 +0000

thanks for the update. i’ll look forward to it.

By: J.R. Hoeft

J.R. Hoeft — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:20:19 +0000

Geez-frickin-louise!!!!

Thanks, Ron.

A post on the 2nd is forthcoming. Much information this past week has been gathered. There is heat to go around for every candidate. I’m not sure if even those who think they are unscathed should be begging for us to write.

By: Ron Mexico

Ron Mexico — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:48:01 +0000

God Bless You, Sal Iaquinto. Thanks for looking out for the regular people.

By: Ron Mexico

Ron Mexico — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:46:54 +0000

Perhaps some of the powers-that-be here at BD don’t like the latest news so they wish to simply ignore it – sweeping it under the proverbial rug as it were. Or, perhaps since they are volunteers writing for our amusement and they are lucky enough to have day jobs they just haven’t gotten a ‘roun to it, yet. I prefer to believe it’s the latter.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:27:09 +0000

Is BD still covering the race in VA-02? I know of a couple candidates that have released interesting updates about their respective campaigns. In addition to endorsements, campaign finance reports came out. Any updates?

By: Steve Vaughan

Steve Vaughan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:51:23 +0000

Here’a a better idea. No assessments.
Republicans should really focus on the real estate tax, because unlike the perfectly fair car tax and estate tax, which the GOP has in turn called the “unfairest tax of all”..the real estate tax really is unfair. Because it charges taxpayers real taxes on theoretical gains in the value of their property.
So here’s a law some Republican should put in: for purposes of real estate taxation the value of a property shall be considered to be (a) the amount for which it was last sold or (b) the amont of the last lien taken against the property, whichever is greater.

Local governments would all hate this of course, but it’s fair.