Platte County Board of Equalization Grants Tax Breaks to Selves, Businesses

PLATTE CITY, MISSOURI — As Republicans in Missouri continue their relentless attack on public education, Republicans in Platte County are playing their party by underfunding schools in order to give tax breaks to themselves and to businesses at the expense of residential homeowners.

What Assessor Cox has recently described as “extreme measures” by the Republican-appointed Board of Equalization has the appearance of the classic cronyism that Platte County citizens have come to expect from the Republican Party. With the Board of Equalization zeroing out various property tax valuations, we have to ask: Did Platte County officials reduce their own property values to zero?

In 2026, we have the opportunity to elect a county government that will put the citizens of Platte County first above padding their own pockets.

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