[Opinion] Property assessment, committees and getting along

Property assessment, committees and getting along

Assessor ranks among the most difficult of publicly elected jobs you can have, in my opinion. Kudos to Platte County Assessor David Cox for pushing back to criticism over the state order to raise values. The entire system is simply broken, and it gets more broken every time a law is passed that meddles in the process. Cox points out that the commercial values that the taxation system relies upon have been significantly adjusted, beyond his autho…