Taxpayers Benefitting From Walker’s Reforms

Awesome.

Public schools in Green County decreased their total levies by 4.24 percent compared to their total levies last year. The seven school districts are levying $29.9 million, about $1.3 million less than $31.2 million levied for 2010-2011.

In Lafayette County, the schools dropped their total levy 3.5 percent, or $450,000. The seven school districts there will raise an aggregate $12.4 million in taxes for 2011-2012, compared to $12.9 million for the previous school year.

And in the past…

In the five subsequent years since 2005-06, annual school tax increases have averaged about 5.5 percent in the state. In Green County, the tax increases averaged 6.5 percent annually, and in Lafayette County, about 8.83 percent.

Incidentally, I had lunch in Monroe today. No Mexican restaurant should ever be designed with a single-seater crapper.