LINCOLN- According to the head of the powerful Revenue Committee, State Senator Lou Ann Linehan of Elkhorn, by talking about "levies" instead of "taxes" local governments try to 'trick" voters into thinking their property taxes have not gone up when everyone knows they have.

So try this on for size: If local governments raise your taxes Linehan says they’d have to send you a letter making sure you know they’ve raised your taxes. Last year by a vote of 47-to-nothing, state senators passed a bill forcing school boards and city councils to hold a separate public hearing and a separate vote if their budgets increased.

But Linehan is convinced some local governments poked the new law in the eye, so she plans to tighten it up.

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