The solution to Nashville problems? MOAR TAXES!
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell is expected to announce an increase to Davidson County property taxes between 20 and 30 percent during his State of Metro address next week, founder of the Nashville Tea Party Ben Cunningham told The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy in an exclusive interview.
On Thursday, May 1 at 10:00 a.m., O’Connell will deliver the 62nd State of Metro address at the Nashville Public Library where he will lay out his policy agenda and budget priorities for the 2026 fiscal year, which Cunningham said will reportedly include a remarkable increase to Davidson County property taxes between 20 and 30 percent.
And from what I read in other articles, there was a similar increase about 4 years ago. Mind you, Davidson County voters approved a 0.5% surcharge on the local option sales tax last November for “transit improvement” which I believe includes more B.S. like the barely use/unused bike paths costing millions of dollars and is nothing else than a traffic boondoggle.
Dear Nashvillians, I believe you may need to buy a lot of Vaseline for the upcoming assessment festivities. Then again, I do call Nashville San Francisco by the Cumberland because it keeps proving me right.
This is quite literally like watching a train run off a broken bridge and plunge into the chasm .
Raise property taxes, taxpayers leave, tax revenue decreases. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Region declines; all thats left are politicritters, rent seekers and criminals.