Commissioners Make Their Case For Raising Taxes
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 5/22/08 @ 12:12 am - Filed Under 2008 Local Elections, City Council, Local Politics
The county commissioners made their presentation at yesterday’s city council meeting for why they need to raise the wheel tax to pay for bridge maintenance. They went through a series of slides that pitted perception vs fact which you can watch below. One of these slides said that they cannot reallocate the $11 million earmarked for Maplecrest Extension but this is not true.
Congressman Souder publicly stated they could ask for these funds to be reallocated but the truth is the commissioners don’t want to do that. They would rather raise your taxes while simultaneously embarking on the largest transportation project in the history of Allen County. And to make matters worse, the finances simply don’t add up which means we’ll all inevitably be bailing this project out.
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