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Is Nashville's Revenue Stream Diverse Enough to Ride out the Housing Slump?

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Posted on February 27, 2008 - 11:53pm at Enclave
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While Metro's FY2008 budget reports that Nashville has the lowest property tax rate of Tennessee's four major cities, it also indicates to me that the local government relies too exclusively on property taxes compared to other major cities. The Finance Department's report says that the "largest single source of operating revenue is the property tax." According to the report

County Critters

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Posted on January 14, 2008 - 9:23am at The Tennessee ConserVOLiance
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Top county employees receive big increases despite $1.7B debt

Shelby County government may be financially strapped, but that hasn’t stopped top officials in county Mayor A C Wharton’s administration from receiving five-figure salary increases in the past six years — almost $50,000 in some cases, records show.

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