Will Nebraska Ever Get Property Tax Relief? Maybe it's Time to Think Outside the Box.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a run day. Yeah, just just go get a run,

(00:02):
get that cardio up. You know, I'm gonna be running.
I'm gonna be run away from these taxes. We run
it away from all my problems. You know, property tax
is a pretty big problem here in Nebraska. We've talked
about it at length. We've had people talking about different
ways to maybe alleviate some of that. In fact, trying
to alleviate it in all of the different ways. They
called the special session for the Nebraska Legislature. Well, it

(00:24):
officially journed after you know, a few weeks, trying to
get back in figure this thing out. Well, sounds like
we're only going to We're Yeah, I don't know. I
appreciate the governor, Governor Pilling giving it a go to
come up with different ideas, But is this ever gonna

(00:44):
get fixed in a way that's going to make a
big difference for us?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
There was a lot of obvious debate, but of course
the voters aren't going to get a whole lot of
opportunities to make that adjustment or the ability to just
kind of recalibrate where our taxes are. And I suppose
the people who wanted to be a part of this

(01:10):
legislative session or the people that are, you know, wrapping
up their careers, the people who are term limited and
all that stuff. Basically provides some money, some tax relief,
but I'm not sure it's going to have that much
of an impact considering how much the governor was hoping
to reallot or re assign.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Now, of course, I'm going to learn more about this bill.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
And LB thirty four, of course, is what they're calling
it and how it is going to affect our day
to day lives. And if you have some thoughts on it,
you can feel free to call us at four two
five five eight eleven ten four row two five five
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thoughts on that. There was another story that's not local
that I did want to touch on here, and I
wanted to just kind of take a temperature for what

(01:57):
we think about this. Have you even at dizzy well there, Matt,
I have I have two Pennsylvania woman named Deborah ostein
suing Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for fifty grand. She
said she was going to Magic kingdoman was pushed over
in a stampede due to an event that was starting soon.
Ostein said a crowd of people rushed her, knocked her

(02:18):
over while walking on Main Street and during the incident,
she claims she was permanently injured and has since suffered
from mental anguish, lost wages and medical expenses. So she
got the MUFASA treatment to assume too soon. What do
you think about this? Does she have a case? Is
it Disney's fault that she got stampeded? Whose fault is

(02:41):
it that she got stampeded? We got to start there.
I need to know more about it. She says there
was an event starting soon, The park was packed and
very busy. A crowd of people rushed her, She got
knocked over and then stampeded, and says she's been permanently injured,
has suffered from mental anguish, lost wages and medical expenses.
She says it was Disney's responsibility to maintained the premises
in a reasonably safe condition and warn of any dangerous

(03:03):
conditions about which it knew or should have known.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is there any video footage like why why are we
not going after the stampede?

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, the Sampeitache is people trying to get from point
A to point B.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
But they're the one bet didn't I mean what they
didn't have the spatial awareness to realize that there was
someone in their way.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
We talked about this yesterday. There's no such thing as
spacial awareness these days. Nobody cares.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was a bunch of those scooter riding people just
mowing them down, like the will to Beast from Lion King.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Is it crazy that the will to beasts are the
ones that ended Moufoss's life? Like usually the a lion,
a couple of lions take down a will to beast.
In this case, it was the will to best taken
down the king lion.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Do you think it had something?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, you think about the circle of life.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, you get a will to beast alone and that's
a meal for a lion.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
But when they're together, you know it's over. But they
have to be running really fasten in one big pack.
It's the only way.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
But what's the allegory there, because isn't lion king? Like
so you got Mufosso who's the king? The will to beast?
Are are they the Are they the peasants who had
had enough?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It's the thing though, is that the hyaenas, We're led
to believe the hyenas started the stampede by chasing the
will to beasts, like kind of rounding them up and
then chasing them. And then they started to sprint, right
and you know, fight or flight. They're flight animals. You know,
as soon as they find themselves in a precarious situation,
they just instinctively decide to run. And that's one of

(04:25):
their defense mechanisms, is all running in the same direction together.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
That definitely fits with the role of the hyenas, though.
They went to the wild of Beasts and they told them, Hey,
aren't you kind of sick of those guys up on
the high hill living great lives while you live in
Squalor and they're coming over here and they're eating you
whenever they want to.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
This is the one thing I'd never quite understood about
the lion king. You never hear an elephant or a
giraffe or the birds that aren't Zazu speaking. You never,
like the wilde beasts, never really seemed like they were antipomorphized,
anthropomorphized enough to where they were part of the of
the society. They were just kind of there. Only the

(05:03):
lions in the Hyenas and Zazu seem to be able
to speak, oh, Intimon and Pumba. Absolutely no other animals
that we see throughout this film at all are speaking.
So are we led to believe that they're in on
this whole thing or are they just kind of these
extras that are utilized as tools by the Hyaenus to
kill Mufasa. And it's fun if it's a fundamental issue

(05:24):
for me in the film. I like the film. It's
really well done. It gives me goosebumps. It's about as
good a soundtracks that you are ever going to have
for an animated film. I just kind of have an
issue with, Okay, so can they all talk to each other?
Because certain species can talk to other species kind of thing.
And I don't know, it's just a little weird to
me that the giraffes are the elephants and some of

(05:45):
the other wildlife that we see out there they don't
really speak, and they make it seem like Mufasa is
king of the jungle, like he's king of everything there.
They all of the animals are bowing down. When Rafiki
lifts up, Simba is like the future heir to the throne.
Why do they do that most of them are gonna
end up being eaten or controlled by the lions. Anyway,

(06:07):
What do they have to gain by bowing down to
the king because it's what you're supposed to do, I
don't know. Just seems like a fundamental mess up in
the plot line there, anyway, back to the original point here.
If this woman got stampeded here at Magic Kingdom, I
don't know how the park itself is liable for that.

(06:29):
I don't know if there's anything on your ticket that
tells you to be a little bit more aware of
things in crowded spaces, And I think, if anything, maybe
the answer is to limit how many people can be
in the park at one time. But I you feel
like this person, this woman thinks she's just trying to
get fifty thousand dollars out of a place that has
a ton of money, and that's about the right amount

(06:49):
of money that they're probably just gonna give it to
her and settle and just be like, look, just stay
out of our hair. Because Disney they can afford fifty
grand to give to one person, it's not that big
of a deal. That'd be my thought. You want to
talk about our property taxes as well. Schmorgasborg here to
start the three o'clock hour. You can call it a
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Speaker 2 (07:10):
Kfab Emery Sunger on news radio eleven ten. Kfab. Let's
go back to the phone.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Four h two five five eight to eleven ten, and
Mark wants to talk about the property tax or whatever
relief there was there after the special session was adjourned today, Mark,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Semi retired, But I've been looking for six months to
move on in the brosseit because I pay almost five
hundred dollars a month in property taxes. But anyway, why
don't they just put a tax on gasoline profanes off
road and diesel and gas and cigarettes whiskey yep, they

(07:52):
fins ye, the sin tax. Put taxes on all that,
but a neckl or ten cents on every gown on
the gas. Yeah, and and tax something else. And the
reason why I say offer diesel too is because the
farmers they're going to benefit from having a lower property taxes. Also, yeah,
I don't believe they need all the tax breaks they

(08:13):
get right.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, well, Mark, just to reiterate, I think that was
talked about. I think that was part of Governor Pillen's plan,
was to just kind of reallocate tax money into different
things that you know, like you mentioned, like gas or diesel,
or tobacco products or marijuana products or whatever, CBD oils,
all that stuff and just kind of like spread it out.

(08:36):
But because both people on both sides say, hey, that
is an actual gigantic tax increase, and I don't feel
good about putting that on the books for Nebraska people
to have the ability to vote for when at the
same time, we're already paying a ton of money just
to live in the property that we already owner, are
in the process of getting to where we own it.

(08:57):
It's insane that we have to worry about pay this
much in property tax, one of the highest rates in
the country in the Midwest, because we are afraid of
taxing other things because oh no, it's a tax increase.
I don't know on a person of person level, how
much of an increase that would end up being, Mark,
I think we'd actually save a lot of money in
that regard.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I would think so too. But also that's another thing.
I think we need to eliminate ninety five percent of
all the senators and divide the state up into like
eight sections and just have eight senators to represent Nebraska.
Look at the money we'd save there. And if you
and the senators that haven't voted or don't vote, they shouldn't.
They should lose their job. We're paying them to vote.

(09:36):
If they can't even vote on an issue like this,
an important issue like this, then they don't deserve to
be sitting in the chair that they're sitting in.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
You're preaching the choir. Mark.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's the one thing about politicians. If you're going to
get sent there, do the job and represent your constituents
the best that you can. Thanks for the call, Mark,
you have a great rest of your day.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
You've bet thank you, yep, for sure.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
What do you think? What do you think?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is it a tax increase if you're also kind of
pulling back fifty percent like Pillin was looking for like
fifty percent of property tax and just kind of reallocating
it in a tax increase in other places, Like to me,
it makes sense like I would support that, But then again,
I don't drive. I guess that much. I guess I don't,

(10:21):
you know, use tobacco or alcohol as much as maybe
some other people would. My guestimation is that a lot
of this has to do with spending as well, and
trying to increase taxes without a true plan to cut spending,
and wanting to make sure that we're cutting spending in
a lot of different ways. And I guess that's the
bigger question that we're going to have to understand in

(10:44):
the future, is is there any way that our legislators
will allow us to kind of voice our opinion on that.
Either I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
what the answer to this is. We've spitballed for this
for months on what we could do to make property
taxes specifically lower, and seem like our legislators are playing
a lot of ball with the governor or basically trying
to listen to what we have to say about the issue.

(11:06):
John's on the phone line of four h two five
to five, eight elevens in, John, what do you think
about this?

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (11:11):
My concern has always been that, Okay, I've never been
one to be able to afford to buy a house,
so I technically I don't have property taxes, But why
should my taxes in other areas go up so the
people who can already afford to buy houses get, you know.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
In the tax break. So I have to pay more
for the things.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
That I buy everywhere else so that my neighbor down
the street doesn't have to pay as much for the
house he can already afford.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, that's interesting. It's an interesting point, John.
I just suppose, like what the effect is overall on
the state of Nebraska. How many people are paying a
ridiculously high property tax rate based on whatever the valuation
of their living space is versus is how much money
is being spent on gas or alcohol, tobacco, CBD, any

(12:07):
of the things that we've talked about that you could
add like a ten cent tax to or whatever to
you know, just allow that money to be recouped by
the government so they don't have to worry about cutting
too much of their spending while also cutting the property taxes.
I can understand what you're saying, though, because there's probably
a lot of people that all of a sudden would
have a lot of tax increases and not have the

(12:27):
same benefits of the property tax relate that we're talking
about and I think that probably is one of the
reasons why a lot of the legislators have not decided
to pull the trigger on that. So it's a good point.
Thanks for bringing it up. Let's go to Joel. Joel's
on the phone line of four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten. Thanks for calling, Joel. What's on your mind today?

Speaker 7 (12:45):
So this tax credit that you're supposed to get, are
they sending in you at check?

Speaker 8 (12:49):
Now?

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Do you understand that?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, I don't know that. I don't know that for
sure at this point.

Speaker 7 (12:55):
Yeah, that's what okay, Because what I'm getting at is like,
so if I haven't been getting my tax credit because
I wasn't aware, how come they don't give me a
back tax credit that then pay me back if I
missed my tax payment, they sure come after me.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, I mean, you're right, that's a yeah, I don't know's.
It's another good point, Joel. I'm just not so sure
if you know we're looking at this, I think there's
more perspectives than I think we probably are thinking about here,
and that might be something that we're worried about, or
I'm worried about, at least being somebody new to this
state is just kind of what the you know, the

(13:32):
carryover from the or for Kamala and her Venn diagrams. Right,
It's just like, how many people are owning houses that
have a ridiculously high rate of property tax versus how
many people aren't owning houses or having to pay for
their own property tax, who then would be taxed on
other items or goods. I feel like that's, you know,

(13:54):
a conversation that we might be able to have otherwise.
But I don't know, it's interesting to say the least.
Let's go to Beth real quick before we go to
the break. Beth, thanks for calling in today. What's your
thoughts on this?

Speaker 9 (14:06):
Yeah, the only thing I want to say really is
that you know, these people, all these houses are so inflated.
I mean, you can't even get into a house for
three hundred thousand. I'm in inflation and everything drove all
that up. And that comes from a lot of spending.
So the more they spend, the more you're going to
get the inflation. It's just what they're doing. And I'm sorry,

(14:26):
but these people are crying about living in these expensive
homes when you have a twint. That's the problem with America.
The public doesn't tend to vote with their dollar and say, no,
I'm not doing this. I don't have to pay you know,
these high property taxes, so I'm just not going to

(14:47):
purchase that, you know, and I know that sounds kind
of extreme, but instead of complaining about it, you know,
you really can't depend upon other people to do something
for you. You're never going to get your lef laid. Sure,
the politicians or any of these people. To change your life,
you have to vote with your dollar. And in that way,

(15:07):
if you do that, then you probably can change your
environment to a certain degree.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
But this is just.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
About money, and this is about how they get money,
and so now they're worried about because people are complaining
about it. They don't want to talk about the spending,
either where the money goes or not being super transparent
with that. They probably have a lot of subsidies. You're
supporting a lot of things, and they don't want to

(15:35):
look at that. Okay, nobody wants to talk about any
of these things that should be talked about. So I'm sorry.
If people own, you know, three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars houses a higher you know, that's a norm now
or you know, if you can't even get into hardly
a house, it's and so it's like, hey, if you
guys are going to do it, then that's the price

(15:58):
you pay in Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, yeah, I already I'm here your bath and it's
a good point.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
So thanks for calling, Beth. I'm running out of time here.
I got to I gotta hit my brake, but I
appreciate you calling in. Yeah, no problem, Jason, John, Bill, Matt.
We will get to all of you coming up. And
if you got thoughts on the property tax. It's something
that I'm learning about. It's something that I would love
for there to be, you know, some amount of just
progress being made, but it just feels like we're so

(16:24):
far apart on so many different aspects of it. Maybe
we can talk through it a little bit now that
that special legislative session is adjourned.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
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Speaker 1 (16:32):
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
Why didn't a bigger something get done? Why did more
relief happen? And why did the legislators were they why
were they so concerned over the potential reallocating of taxes
into other products and not necessarily in support of that.
We're talking about all of that. You can call in
it four two eight eleven ten. Jason's on the line. Jason,

(17:02):
welcome to the show today. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (17:04):
Hey, my friend, I just want to keep it quick.
My comment is as a renter, I rent from a
private landlord. And three years ago my rent was fourteen
seventy five or fourteen fifty and in the last two
years or three years, that's gone up three hundred dollars. Well,
and so I mean a ridiculous amount for a two
bedroom house. And so you know, I mean, where does

(17:24):
it end? But you know, people keep voting for these
people in these policies and no real action takes place. Hey,
vote for communist Kamala and tampon Tim and let's see
where we go from here, because there's going to reach
a breaking point and that's just where people are at.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
So well, real quick, Jason. If they were to increase
taxes on random products like gas, for instance, as a
way to alleviate property tax, which you may or may
not benefit from, certainly your rent unlikely to go down
if property tax goes down, but it may not increase
as much. If there was ever a reason increase. Would

(17:59):
you be in support of something like that if it
at least potentially could make rent a little bit cheaper,
if your landlord had less of property tax it?

Speaker 8 (18:07):
Well, it's when is when of prices ever come down?

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Cut taxes? Yeah, I mean, it's just moving money around
from one communist policy to another. It's ridiculous. It's there's
no I mean, originally in this country we're only supposed
to pay property taxes for seven years, but that got
all washed away a long long time ago. So you know,
it's I'm just telling you that society is going to
be trickle up poverty. There is a breaking point that
will be reached, and you'll see it first in these

(18:32):
you know, democrat run cities like Chicago. So you know,
hang on, hang on to the ride.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
All right, Jason, thanks for the call. Let's go to Mark. Mark,
thank you for being on the show today. What are
you thinking about?

Speaker 10 (18:45):
Yeah, just to clarify one thing on the caller had
a question, what if he missed taking this credit and
he can go and file on the mint in return
and go back and get those credits that he missed,
So depending on what he's paying improper tax, it's worth it.
But you know, the thing with Pillin he never ceases
to amaze me, because what this special session did is

(19:07):
that lowered property taxes by three percent. He said twenty,
but seventeen was already there from the credit. So if
he spent a bunch of money in a special session
and basically didn't accomplish anything, but his plan what it's
going to do. It's going to benefit the upper middle
class and the wealthy by cutting their property taxes significantly.

(19:29):
And it's going to be on the backs of the
lower middle class and the poorer individuals by making them
pay for tax on gasoline and all this other stuff
that they use. So you know, it's really the opposite
of what I mean. This would be more of a
pro Trump policy than a comality I mean, I mean,

(19:51):
she's more supporting the middle class. I mean, I mean
Pilling is out for Pilling. I think he would save
a milli million dollars a year if that, if his
plan passed. Yeah, and you know, and Pilling is extremely wealthy,
right right.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, Mark, I guess my bigger thought here would be,
you know, certainly there were other legislators that didn't like
the plan in general that he was trying to cut.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
What what do you think?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, obviously you're not in support of what the bigger,
larger plan was of forty fifty percent. The Pillon was
going for. What what would be a good solution here?
Or is there a solution or are we just you know,
do okay? What are we looking at here?

Speaker 10 (20:35):
Well? Pillin and Ricketts have been fighting gambling for how
many decades? There years? They're both still fighting legalizing marijuana.
That would be two sources and you're going to tax that.
I mean, you know you're not forced to buy that
or you're not forced to gamble. That would be a
major source of revenue that Nebraska has is given away

(20:55):
and it's still giving away. I mean, I mean, it
doesn't make any sense to not And that would bring
more tourism into the state. Yeah, And they're going to
get more hotel tax, they're going to get more restaurant tax.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:08):
But they and they've been fighting this thing tooth and
nail for decades and it's ridiculous. And there's your solution
that that would not lower property taxes fifty percent, that
would lower them a significant amount.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, even I have spent full shows talking about stuff
like that, Mark, So yeah, yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah,
there's no doubt that I feel you on that, especially
seeing how it's working in other states and the money
that's left on the table. But either way, you know
what what will be what will be, And we have
apparently an opportunity to take a look at this and
have our voices heard next election.

Speaker 10 (21:44):
But you could also get you could also get Pilling
on your show and ask him why he's so opposed
to those two ways of generating revenue. That would be
a great show.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I would I would love to.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
You know, I haven't talked to him for a couple
of months now, so we might have to reach out
to his office and talk to him about a few
of these things.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
So thanks a lot.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Up.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Thanks Mark. Let's go to Jim real quick. Hey Jim,
thanks for being on our show today. What are you
thinking about?

Speaker 11 (22:05):
Hey, I just had a comment about inflation.

Speaker 12 (22:09):
I think it's related.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Okay, going back to Milton Friedman, I think it was seventies.
Maybe someone asked him about that topic and he said,
you know, people themselves create inflation. He gave the example,
when you buy something, you want to buy it for
as cheap as possible, but when you sell something, you
want to sell it for as much as you can
get out of it. Okay, So I.

Speaker 13 (22:33):
Think that directly goes into the houses. You know, it's
like people, they'll guys buying houses. They'll buy one for
one hundred and sixty thousand, want to sell it for
two hundred and sixty And all they did was throw
on a code of paint. You know, he fix the
floor up. But I mean I think that's that spans everything,
you know, just little things like that.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, I mean it's a good point, Jim.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I do agree that there's a little bit more to
the economics than just somebody having a bad policy. But
thanks for the call today. Okay, So what he's saying,
I get it. At the same time, as far as
you know, that might work that way for like houses,
but there are things that depreciate and value, or things
that are perishable items or things that are needed to

(23:19):
be useful. You know, you go and you buy gasoline,
you use it. That's not going to just like fill
back up into your car if you like, recharge it
at night. You know, there are electric vehicles, they can
do stuff like that. At the same time, I think
that it's a good point that people are always looking
to buy low and sell high and what that can do,

(23:40):
especially to the housing market, which is what we've been
talking about pretty specifically here. He's right, when is the
last time that a house actually lost value without a
market crash? Somebody must have been taking terrible care of
it or they would have been.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
What's the thing.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
What happens when you don't pay taxes on your house
and they take it over, They take it back from
you public domain? Yeah, something like that, or they seize
your property, repossess the house or whatever. Yeah, I mean,
I can I can understand that in that scenario, potentially
things are maybe moving in a direction where the price

(24:18):
goes down a little bit or the value goes down.
But I'd like to know when the last time house
prices did go down. Now that he mentions it without
major damage or something like that, it's very interesting if
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five eight eleven ten Bob, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Okay, So here's the thing about the property taxes. They
keep trying to find a way to collect the same
amount of money from us this Oh we're going to
lower the property taxes, but we're going to charge tax
on gas or we're going to do this. They need
to quit spending money.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, and that was that was the big thing why
the legislators didn't like agree with the Pillar plan is
because there was no plan to decrease spending.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Yeah, decreased spending. I mean these schools, we're building all
these schools, and you know, yes, we need schools, we
need classrooms, we need this stuff. They build stay to
the art sports facilities at these schools. What the heck
is that all about? These schools? They need ask they
need the artificial turf. They need this, they need that. Yeah,

(25:48):
you know grass grows here.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, yeah, no, Bob.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I think then the question then becomes, who's going to
take care of it, like the maintenance of some of
that stuff.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Take care of it. Here's how you take care of
the high school kids. Take care of it. Get them
out there, teach them how to mow lawn. Heck, there's
people buying houses out here and they're thirty forty years old.
They don't know how to mow the lawn.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I feel like this is a different problem than solving
our property taxes.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Bob.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
It is. No, it isn't. It's about controlling the cost.
That's the problem. You solve property taxes by low what
to spend money on. Because a house was one hundred
thousand dollars house, and let's say the taxes were one
thousand dollars. Yeah, now the house is two hundred thousand dollars.
Now they're getting two thousand dollars the same house.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Now, I'm with you, I'm with you. I get it.
I'm hearing you. I'm hearing you. I don't know about
being able to cut money from schools specifically, no matter
how they're using but it's it's definitely one area above
that can probably be looked at. Appreciate the call real quick.
Let's get Jared in here. Jared, thanks for the call today.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 12 (26:53):
Hey, you heard your caller earlier about saying he's never
been able to afford a house or whatnot. Uh, and
he's rented his whole life. Yeah, you know, indirectly or directly,
he's still paying property tax.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah. Yeah, and I got so.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I got a lot of people in the email here,
Jared that are talking about, Hey, when I park at
property tax goes up.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Guess who gets to pay more money?

Speaker 12 (27:15):
You know, like, yeah, the renter, the renterer ends up
paying more property, no more rent. Yeah, for sure, we
all we all pay property taxes one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's a good point.

Speaker 12 (27:24):
No different, and it's and it's no different. You know,
owning a vehicle, you buy a brand new vehicle, you're
paying seven eight nine percent when you go to life
and every year until that vehicle hits ten or fifteen
years old, then finally it's only like thirty dollars to
place it. You know, we're paying absorbent in amounts on
that as well. Yeah, yeah, it just it never ends.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, there's no doubt, Jared.

Speaker 12 (27:47):
And I know I know a lot of people dislike
this comment I'm about to make. But Tom Osborne was
a great football coach for the university. Yeah, he was
a horrible politician. Our political leaders in Lincoln need to
quit listening to Tom Osborne and start but allow this
online sports Betty. I'm not a sports better.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
No, no, Jared, I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
I don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
But yeah, but Jared, you're preaching to the choir. Iowa.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
IOWA was making tens of millions a year on that
tens of millions, Like, like, it's just ignorance to me
at this point that we're afraid of the morals of
this when we already live in a pretty immoral society.
And instead of just like hey, getting with the times
and educating people on what some of this stuff is
or what it can do to you, we're saying, no,

(28:38):
I can't do that. We're gonna make rules to say
you can't do that. And instead we're just going to
have a bunch of people paying a lot more money
for their property taxes.

Speaker 12 (28:44):
And regardless, the longer we put it off, the more
money is just flooding across either the Missouri River.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Ye.

Speaker 12 (28:52):
South Dakota borders this border. Yeah, people are gambling here regardless.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah for sure. Man, Hey, I gotta go. I appreciate Yeah,
no doubt, Jared, thanks for the call. This is good.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, he's right. We talked about that and had full
shows about that too. I'm one hundred percent on board
with that. I don't know how you couldn't be, considering
how much money has been generated with a lot of
these states, and I think the steps are getting there
right this Warhorse casino thing, I think that's going to
be kind of opening a door or pathway for Nebraska
getting with the times and taking a little bit of

(29:27):
that money from the places across the river in Council
Bluffs and in Iowa in general.