Marin County's WC Costs Leveling Out Income with Property, Sales Taxes

Increasing workers’ compensation costs are eating up some of the growth of income brought in by property taxes in California's Marin County, according to the Marin Independent Journal.  The offset is making county supervisors embrace a $519 million budget program for 2016 that is only slightly higher than this year's budget, though the Journal reported that the budget increase is "largely consistent with spending forecasts made last June and reflects a brightening fiscal picture amid a rebounding economy." Over the past year, property tax revenue h...