Commish's Corner

“Property taxes are skyrocketing in Washington!” “We need to defuse the property tax time bomb!”

These were the rallying cries of Tim Eyman, author of Initiative 747, which passed voter approval back in 2001. I-747 was designed to limit property tax increases to one percent more tax collected than in the previous year.

This sounded great, right? Government has gotten out of control! They’re wasting all of our tax money! This certainly may have been the case in many instances, especially at the federal and state government levels. But for the most part, local governments seem to operate quite e...