Column | Lewis: We’ve been robbed — Part 1: The shell game uncovered

Column | Lewis: We’ve been robbed — Part 1: The shell game uncovered

For those who pay property taxes here in Eagle County, I don’t need to tell you the last few years have been brutal. Property taxes have jumped as much as 70% in a single cycle. When inflation is running under 3%, that kind of increase doesn’t feel like normal taxation — it feels like a financial mugging. Personally, my property taxes have more than doubled. So when I heard that another group was organizing to ask voters for even more money to r…