Anyone — liberal, conservative, lunatic fringe — who cares about good government should be aghast at what Mecklenburg County is about to do. There is absolutely no, none, zippy sound reason to delay the property tax revaluation process that is now almost complete.

Oh, there is good reason if you are a speculative developer sitting on parcel after parcel of unsold inventory. Inventory with tax bills now based on the fully developed value — a wrinkle you never, ever expected. In fact, that can be the only possible motivation for the county commission acting this way. The reasons publicly given for the delay certainly make no sense.

Taxing people out of their homes? If you are worried about that, then you cut the property tax rate in the spring. Ditto hitting 90 percent of property owners with a 20 percent tax hike. You don’t what to do that in 2009, but it is OK to do it in 2010? Makes no sense.

Meanwhile is remotely fair to let close-in burbs continue to pay tax based on tax values that are 50 to 75 percent too low and do not reflect recent renovations? Don’t tell me this is another case of Dilworth getting treated one way and the rest of community another. I am in shock.