{"id":3573,"date":"2007-01-29T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:47:19","slug":"theres-natural-laws-and-then-theres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/theres-natural-laws-and-then-theres\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Natural Laws, And Then There&#8217;s&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What goes up must come down?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=558093\" target=\"_new\">How quaint.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Our townhouse in Wauwatosa, on the market for eight months, was reassessed at $391,000 last summer,&#8221; Boyce said. &#8220;Our asking price, after being lowered twice, is now $349,900 and still we have not received any legitimate offers. Assessments are completely out of whack with values.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government law trumps natural law, the laws of economics, and every other law it wants when it comes to getting its paws on tax money.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect your property tax assessments to fall with the market.  Expect, at best, they&#8217;ll hold steady until inflation or the government&#8217;s own meddling force real estate prices up again.<\/p>\n<p>If you object too strenously, citizen, perhaps you&#8217;d prefer to see your house as a couple of parking spaces and a light standard for the new stadium\/mall\/mixed use complex, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What goes up must come down? How quaint. &#8220;Our townhouse in Wauwatosa, on the market for eight months, was reassessed at $391,000 last summer,&#8221; Boyce said. &#8220;Our asking price, after being lowered twice, is now $349,900 and still we have not received any legitimate offers. Assessments are completely out of whack with values.&#8221; Government law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18290,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/18290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}