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Best Recent Comment: 'How can that be fair and legal?'

One commenter asks how an arbitrary cap on co-op tax increases can be let to stand.

In response to the Dept. of Finance decision to cap tax valuation increases purportedly caused by a glitch, Patch User  had this to say:

The attempted cure last year applied a cap if the assessment went up over 50% or more! But a 49% increase caused by the same mistake was left standing. How can that be fair and legal? Most residents have fixed income and may not achieve the cost of living increase, so why raise the taxes on their homes ten times higher than they can afford?

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