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Iowa corrections officials bring in Minnesota, South Dakota officials to investigate Anamosa prison killings
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Iowa Senate Republicans are seeking a $6.3 million budget increase for the Department of Corrections in the wake of the slaying of two prison workers, even as their House counterparts have proposed an increase of more than $20 million and Democrats are asking for much more.
House and Senate leaders have yet to negotiate final budget numbers, but funding for the Iowa Department of Corrections has become a point of controversy after Anamosa State Penitentiary nurse Lorena Schulte, 50, and correctional officer Robert McFarland, 46, were killed on March 23 in what authorities say was a failed inmate escape attempt by two inmates.
On Wednesday, the Senate s budget proposal advanced through subcommittee and committee hearings on party-line votes, making it eligible for floor debate. Senate Republicans had originally said they would seek a $4 million increase for the Department of Corrections, $2.3 million less than what the bill now includes. The proposal would add the money to the de
Iowans who remember what it was like to live in a state that prized education no doubt heaved a sigh of relief when a vindictive and counterproductive bill to ban tenure at state universities failed to advance in the Legislature.
Iowa employers, chamber groups and agriculture associations lobbied against that bill, which they said would harm their efforts to recruit workers and also stifle important research on which their industries depend.
Now, Iowans have a new reason to sigh. House Republicans are continuing their ideological vendetta against Iowa’s universities, this time using the state budget as a cudgel. House Republicans last week unveiled legislation that gives state universities zero increase and piles on with a mandated tuition freeze.
Opinion: Look at Utah s Truth-in-Taxation for how Iowa could provide more effective property tax relief John Hendrickson
Property taxpayers in Iowa are frustrated. Taxpayers often blame assessors for high property tax bills, but it is government spending that results in high property taxes. Property taxes are also a form of wealth tax. For example, if the value of a home increased by 10%, it does not mean the property owner has a 10% increase in savings to cover their property tax.
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If the goal is to ensure all Iowans receive property tax relief, then the best approach is to strengthen the 2019 property tax transparency and accountability law by requiring a Utah-style Truth-in-Taxation process. Utah’s Truth-in-Taxation law not only provides accountability in transparency, but it is also based on the revenue side.
Opinion: Property tax relief in Iowa requires limits on governments
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