They don't like it when we protest

Roy Mallette, in Cicero County New York, saw the assessed value on his property increase in one year from $200,000 to $980,000. Almost a 5 fold increase. To show his unhappiness in this tax system, he paid the tax bill in coin and small bills. The county treasury office that receives the payment spent a day counting the money and the workers complained how he was protesting at the wrong office. They just collect the tax not make the assessment. That may be true, but by paying his bill on time and paying in coin and small bills, his plight got the attention of the media and therefore the politicians. If he had written a letter to the paper or to the politicians it would have been much easier to ignore. Now the County has experienced some of the pain he felt having the property reassessed with the increase in taxes as a result.