Judging from a handful of people who attended a town hall meeting Monday, Gov. Jim Pillen might have some popular support for raising sales taxes to lower property taxes.
“Things are way out of whack now,” said Lanny Schmid of Fremont, saying he’d be OK with a hike in sales taxes if it translated into lower property taxes.
Fremont banker Scott Meister agreed, though he added that it will take a variety of steps, not just raising sales taxes, to achieve Pillen’s goal of reducing property taxes by a total of 40%.