I would like to encourage the Haines community to take advantage of early voting and vote yes on Ballot Initiative No.1, “Shall the Borough increase the property tax exemption level from $150k to $300k for those Haines Residents who qualify?”
This $150,000 number was instituted in the 1970s as a guarantee that no senior citizen would be at risk of losing their forever home to a greedy taxing district. The average home value in America…