NEWS
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Most Recent News:
APS property tax ballots mailed to inactive voters
By now, if you live in the APS area (including Bernalillo County and parts of Sandoval County) you should definitely have received one of these ballots in your mailbox. These must be returned by February 5th. We encourage you to vote, but before you do, consider whether APS needs more of your tax dollars or to better manage the money they get now. What does NMBC think?
Albuquerque home owner sounds off on APS Tax Increase
NMBC received some great information on the APS tax election from one of our followers. The below information was written by Amy Horowitz, a retired businesswoman who is a homeowner/taxpayer in Albuquerque:
Albuquerque property taxes are out of control!
If you haven’t bought or sold a home lately you may not grasp the magnitude of Albuquerque’s property tax burden. Nobody wants to talk about it and the numbers aren’t easy to find. But here are five things you really should know before you vote – either personally or as a legislator — on any tax increase.
Does APS think money grows on trees?
NMBC supports improved pay for teachers, well maintained schools & proper security for our kids. But here’s a question:
Does APS think money grows on trees? It doesn’t and their harvest of our tax dollars needs to be carefully scrutinized. APS wants to deny the truth, but when publicly questioned, they find it hard to evade the facts:
APS tax increase: Bailout or Ballot?
APS claims they desperately need more of your money or they won’t finish projects under construction or repair leaking roofs.
Really?
Mandated wages, tax increases?
Have you been paying attention to the riots in Paris?
Mainstream media hasn’t been covering it much, but it could come down to this locally if we
Where do we go from here?
Breaking News and Other Resources
We’re sure many of you have voted by now, but we also know that things come up and many have not. You can find early voting locations HERE. Tomorrow will be the last day for in-person voting and locations will be open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Here’s some new information that just came out from OpenTheBooks.com. This scorecard has ratings for Congressional transparency. Above, you will see the scores for Representatives Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Lujan who both received an “F”, and Representative Steve Pearce who received a “B”.
NMBC was pleased to see that the scorecard from OpenTheBooks is non-partisan and uses objective standards to determine scores, much like we do. Here is a link to the full scorecard. For those skeptics out there, it is noteworthy that Representative Paul Ryan, Republican Speaker of the House, received the worst grade of any Congressman with an “F” with 22%.