claim: st. pete beach's local version of amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate."
author: citizens for lower taxes and a stronger economy
evidence_1: st. pete beach's local version of amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless  lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the  property tax rate." — politifact florida on tuesday, march 16th, 2010. page 1 of 1 .
evidence_2: oct 25, 2010 ... anti-amendment 4 group cites politifact in newspaper ad ... with its own version  of amendment 4, resulting in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the  city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate. ... politifact  florida never said that what happened in st. pete beach's case will ...
evidence_3: mar 19, 1997 ... for tahoe regional planning agency before the supreme court in suitum v. ... v.  reyniak, putting takings back into the fifth amendment: land use ...... cities:  group empowerment, local control, and the implications of ..... while lowering its  tax rate to the lowest rate of any dade county municipality.
evidence_4: result ... version ... property .... raise ... street ... legal ..... beach ..... amendment ...  lawsuit .... cities ... seemingly ...... 4-bit ..... tax-free ... infinite-dimensional .... non- local ... budgeting ... brute-force .... locally-owned ..... pre-tax ...... decimation .....  peter .... second-rate ...
evidence_5: the use of local property taxes to fund public schools in the united states has  been .... [4] as a result of these decisions, about 95 percent of california public  school .... tax rate = the school tax rate per $1000 of equalized value for the town  for the ..... increase in the local budget, which must be paid from local property  taxes.