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LI's county executives: Schools boost property taxes

Originally published: October 13, 2009 8:29 PM
Updated: October 13, 2009 9:20 PM
By SID CASSESE  sid.cassese@newsday.com

Both of Long Island's county executives said Tuesday that schools are a major cause of Long Island's high property taxes.

"School property taxes are crushing residents," Nassau's Thomas Suozzi said. "Since 2003, the schools' portion of the total tax bill in Nassau has risen from 58 percent to 65 percent, but the county's portion went from 22.7 to 16.4 percent."

The lawmakers were responding...

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