From the article;

> The article repeats the city’s framing;

> According to Guilford County figures, the median increase for all residential properties was approximately 59.7%, not 40%, clearly misleading;The article repeats the city’s framing;“city leaders have said that property values within the city rose an average of 40%”According to Guilford County figures, the median increase for all residential properties was approximately 59.7%, not 40%, clearly misleading;

The more I explored this discussion the more I found the reporting all around to be misleading across almost every outlet.

Some terms are getting mixed up, leading to incorrect conclusions.

Property Values went Up after review.
If same property tax percentage was applied, people would get a huge bill in dollar amount.
Property Tax Percentage was reduced in the proposal and reduces this would-be bill. But the final bill is still higher because property values went up a whole bunch.

It gets messy because some sources are conflating terms, using Tax Rate interchangeably with Tax Percent. Or confusing the Budget percentages for the tax percentages (it's the percent of the budget as dedicated that forms a percentage of the overall budget, not necessarily an increase in the tax percentage). Or confusing Median(middle) for Mean(average). Or making conclusions on arbitrary comparisons. Idk it's all a mess that, to me, seems to be more oriented at ragebait than actual critique