$540,701,000,000: U.S. Property Taxes Hit Record in 2016: (CNSNews.com) — Americans paid a record $540,701,000,000 in property taxes to state and local governments in fiscal 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.That was up $16,748,620,000 — or about 3.2 percent — from $523,952,380,000 in property taxes (in constant 2016 dollars) that state and local governments collected in fiscal 2015.

Definitive Proof: Conservatives Can't Trust Snopes Anymore: Recently, these remarks by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson caused liberals to break out into hives: That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.

Poll: Majority of Americans Turned Off By Media's Negative Trump Coverage: Be it out of ignorance, or sheer arrogance, mainstream media continue to ignore the fact that they've lost the trust of the American people. A new IBD/TIPP poll reveals that 55% of the public have grown 'weary from the media's persistently negative coverage of President Trump.'