It demonstrates the politically elite will fight to obstruct reform in order to protect their backroom property tax deals.

North Kingstown has been very aggressive in promoting property tax reform. We're looking to the General Assembly for leadership in pushing this process forward.

The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income tax based system. We're talking about the wrong issues.

We just can't do this anymore without getting some assistance from the property tax.

Property tax is the lightest. We haven't been looking at those three pieces to see if there should be a rebalance.

The preservation of the rebate program should always be a priority until there is a stable form of property-tax relief and reform. It is the only lifeline and the only bridge until real reform is enacted. To take that away, which is meaningful property-tax relief, would be wrong in my mind.