Petition will raise our taxes

OK, here's how I read this: A group of people are afraid our duly elected county commissioners are going to get us into debt that will raise our taxes. So a petition has been circulated to force an election on the proposal to issue certificates of obligation to expand the county annex building.

If the petition is successful, we are assured this group once again will run a negative campaign to defeat the proposal which they are afraid will raise our taxes. Ultimately, this will raise our taxes by putting off the inevitable expansion until the cost of construction far outpaces the nominal tax increases we would have seen if we had let the commissioners do the job we elected them to do in the first place.

This is exactly what occurred last year when a group of "outraged," excuse me, "concerned" citizens decided they knew how to keep our taxes lower by defeating the jail and annex bonds in order that we continue paying other counties to house our rising prisoner population and in the end forcing us to pay possibly twice as much or more for the exact same jail and annex expansion we would have gotten without their petitions.

Every citizen does have a hand in running our county government and watching over our tax dollars by voting for the county commissioners they think will get the job done right.

How do you spell tax relief?

Gail Eltgroth

Lometa