Republican supermajority responsible for property tax hikes

Too many vacation rentals. Banks buying houses. Committed and hardworking Department of Revenue staff.

There are an awful lot of options for who and what to blame for the steep property tax appraisals that many of us received in the mail the last few weeks. But I’ll tell you about the best kept secret in Montana this summer...the Republican supermajority could have prevented this.

Let’s look at how. Last week, I attended the Department of Revenue’s community meeting in Helena about our property tax appraisals. People were frustrated and had lots of questions, mostly around why this was happeni...