Republicans Must Stop Passing the Buck on Property Tax Hikes

There’s a lot of back-and-forth across the state right now about who is responsible for the property tax crisis that’s hitting homeowners in the wallet and making housing more expensive for all of us. Regardless of whether you own your home or rent it, sky rocketing property values in Montana are making it hard for all of us to find a place to live and afford to stay there.

We’ve known that for a while now, and Governor Gianforte and the Republican supermajority in the state Legislature knew it too. They failed to act, plain and simple. Now, they’re trying to kick sand in the air to blind us t...