DrDeadCrash

Thank you, it looks great. I'll pick it up sometime

Exactly, we've seen this previously with Internet explorer.

I really enjoyed his book, "Debt".

Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.

This is right along lines of something I've been thinking on... Simple dependency relations that combine like functions.

Thank you, that was a good read.

I hate it when the tin-foil-hatters end up being coincidentally right about something.

This sentiment comes from a time when the (very sizable) middle class could afford to own and maintain two new-model (not pre owned) vehicles, and it worked great for them. I feel like I've been here a bit longer than you, but in a similar position. All I can say is vote and stay informed, there will come a time when the scales tip.

They're just getting the message, now.

I don't think I would believe it, even if I saw it. I don't know what it would take to generate trust, my gut says they'll laugh this off the next time they get to go beat some heads.

At the top of the thread ;)

Former municipal clerk here

It's basically an open records issue to prevent favoritism/corruption by the assessors. They have basically full authority to set your property value (although they have a lot of rules...). In my State, there is a Board of Review that is conducted in every township which follows an open book period when anyone can come in and check on assessed values. The Board of Review is when you can challenge the assessed value of your property, one way of doing this is to compare your assessed value to the assessment of some other similar property. To do this you have to "prove that the assessor made an error". So, unless they made some blatant error in assessment (which they like to correct at the open book), the challenge will fail. Though recently they're have been successful challenges by business claiming lowered property value due closure or conversion of a property.