Readers' forum: No rainy-day fund

Published: Saturday, Feb. 4 2012 12:00 a.m. MST

In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, a real estate sign is displayed in front of a home in Little Rock, Ark.

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The value of my home is almost half of what it was a few years ago. So why are my taxes more?

I guess I need to go to my rainy-day fund. Oh, I forgot, I don't have a rainy-day fund because I had to pay my taxes.

I guess it will just have to rain on my house, and no parade for me.

Marlyn Barnes

Midvale

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ugottabkidn

Sandy, UT

And watch your services decline, watch them cut funding for education, not to mention the subsidies for businesses that erode the tax base not add to them. We are victims of an eloborate conservative con that put Utahns in the top of the nation's More..

11:00 a.m. Feb. 4, 2012
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Hutterite

American Fork, UT

The value of your home may have originally been too high, driven by loans available to people who never should have gotten them. And the cost of servicing your home did not decrease with it's value. And, you probably didn't run for city council.