Are you happy about your new property tax bill?

I’m definitely not.

Everywhere I go, people are grumbling about how much their property taxes increased.

But if you think nobody is happy, you’re wrong. Governor Gianforte and the Republican legislative supermajority raised our property taxes. Yep, it’s true, and it was intentional.

Sure, taxes are complicated, and we pay them because we have to. So, you might be asking an obvious question, like I did: Why in the heck would Republican leadership want homeowners to pay more in their property tax bill? The answer is simple math -- the governor and Republican legislators figured out that they cou...