Green Building and Real Estate Blog

Vt. Engineer Designs A Good Life for $5,000 a Year

As local governments scramble to cope with revenue shortfalls, homeowners are getting slapped with tax increases -- even as real-estate values tumble. Proposed rate increases run as high as 17%.

By Catherine Holahan, MSN Money

By Paul Foy, AP

The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge — an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates — could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.

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Realtors struggle to convince people that their home price has fallen, too.

The housing market may have bust, but many homeowners are still living in a bubble.

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On stage and behind the curtain, transfer of tax payer money to corporate pockets intensifies. We are yet to find out how much money really went into corporate accounts within the last 6 months of intensive financial activity of the Federal Government. It seems they in a rush to give away as much money as possible before the time is up. This environment very much remind me late 1980's and early 1990's of the former USSR. Theft by government official was happening at ever growing rates.

Read the MSN article to find over $120 billion of our tax payer money.