How does the Summerville FY2027 budget close a $12 billion deficit without raising property taxes?

A twelve-billion dollar deficit is not a figure any verified source ties to Summerville's town budget, which operates on a far smaller scale than that number suggests, so the premise itself does not hold up. Summerville's actual budget process runs through public town council hearings each year, where proposed spending and any changes to the town's portion of the tax rate are presented and debated in public. Property tax bills on a Summerville home are also affected separately by whatever rate the relevant county and the school district set, not just the town's own budget. Brian Beatty can point a Summerville homeowner to where those public budget documents are published.