If you live in Cherokee County and are toying around with voting to raise taxes on yourself and your neighbors, you might want to read a brief prepared by the JLF’s Michael Sanera. It argues three commissioners’ ousters in the primaries showed a lack in confidence in their ability to manage the people’s affairs. It therefore is only reasonable to give whoever wins the November election a chance at realizing greater efficiencies before giving government money for shell games. As always, the additional revenue is supposedly needed to help cover withdrawn state disbursements for education. Officials claim questionable expenditures on additional parks and recreation staff, the courthouse expansion, and the new transit system will not cause taxes to be raised.
by Leslee Kulba
Wild West blogger