On the Campaign Trail with Gina Paulick

OK, well, to start with, my platform is built primarily on talking to the talking to the voters.

So since June 2nd.

Just about every day I've been knocking on doors.

We've hit 19,000 households, 9,000 doors.

I've gone through the entire district one lap and I'm on my second lap.

So when I talk about what I want to do, it's what I want to do is what the people have told me they want me to do.

And the first number one is property taxes.

People are just in arms about the property taxes that keep going up and up and up.

And I can speak to Mount Pleasant.

Just in the three years we've been there, our property taxes have gone up.

So property taxes are a huge burden.

And what's interesting about Wisconsin, we don't have a policy in Wisconsin for seniors 65 and older.

So grandma... who is got on a fixed income or a pension or social security, her rate of income is not going up at the rate that the property taxes are.

And so there lies the problem.

And, um, California for all the flaws it has, it did have a policy that covered that for seniors.

It was called prop 13.

So, and there are other States that have something.

So one of my policy pushes is to eliminate would be, I know is probably too high in the pie of thinking, but eliminate California.

freeze or cap property taxes for seniors, especially if you're 65, you've been paying your whole life, possibly your home is paid off.

We can't just continue to tax people to death.

I mean, that's a big one.

So eliminating that and making sure that we are doing everything we can to to give property tax relief.

I know in Mount Pleasant, there was a big announcement last Monday, 4.9 million is coming back from Microsoft and the Microsoft data centers.

And that's going to be direct property tax relief for the taxpayers.

So that's one.

OK, well, to start with, my platform is built primarily on talking to the talking to the voters.

So since June 2nd.

Just about every day I've been knocking on doors.

We've hit 19,000 households, 9,000 doors.

I've gone through the entire district one lap and I'm on my second lap.

So when I talk about what I want to do, it's what I want to do is what the people have told me they want me to do.

And the first number one is property taxes.

People are just in arms about the property taxes that keep going up and up and up.

And I can speak to Mount Pleasant.

Just in the three years we've been there, our property taxes have gone up.

So property taxes are a huge burden.

And what's interesting about Wisconsin, we don't have a policy in Wisconsin for seniors 65 and older.

So grandma... who is got on a fixed income or a pension or social security, her rate of income is not going up at the rate that the property taxes are.

And so there lies the problem.

And, um, California for all the flaws it has, it did have a policy that covered that for seniors.

It was called prop 13.

So, and there are other States that have something.

So one of my policy pushes is to eliminate would be, I know is probably too high in the pie of thinking, but eliminate California.

freeze or cap property taxes for seniors, especially if you're 65, you've been paying your whole life, possibly your home is paid off.

We can't just continue to tax people to death.

I mean, that's a big one.

So eliminating that and making sure that we are doing everything we can to to give property tax relief.

I know in Mount Pleasant, there was a big announcement last Monday, 4.9 million is coming back from Microsoft and the Microsoft data centers.

And that's going to be direct property tax relief for the taxpayers.

So that's one.