Correction: Comments made by one public speaker at the meeting, Michael Garrett, have been changed to make clear he was referring to the Federal Reserve that lowered interest rates during the pandemic.
Around 200 people who felt unjustly squeezed by property taxes linked to the ever-increasing value of their homes gave Johnson County commissioners an earful Wednesday night in a loud and often angry public hearing.
All but seven or eight of the 47 speakers asked commissioners to abandon their intention to move ahead with a budget that keeps a flat property tax rate, which would still mean an increased tax bill for people who saw higher appraisals on their homes…