?Almost everybody comes up a loser in Haywood County?s proposed 2004-05 budget,? says the lead paragraph of a story in the Waynesville Enterprise Mountaineer.
Lots of spending requests, in other words, were rejected in fashioning the budget plan. Also rejected, the reader finds out by delving further into the story, was a property-tax increase.
So, actually, taxpayers weren?t really losers at all. Perhaps in Haywood County they are a small group?
