The Best Way To Increase Your Taxes

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

At the Canton City Council meeting on September 16th, the Council voted to hold a 3rd Public Hearing on the proposed Millage increase....Therefore the vote on whether to increase the property tax millage will be held at the next City Council meeting on October 7th......

One of the Council members remarked that he had heard no opposition to the increase...I understand that this member may be leaning toward voting in favor of the increase....The Best Way to get an increase in City taxes is to do nothing.....Don't Call your Council Member... Don't Call your Mayor.... Just be quiet and let the Government make all the decisions for you..... Someone else with speak for you....

Another Council member remarked earlier that we should bite the bullet, increase the millage and build up our reserve....Well I for one don't believe you build a reserve in troubled economic times.... you build a reserve when times are good..... we are in an economic drought...everyone is... We don't pump water out of the Etowah River to fill our Reservoir during a drought... we will do so when there's plenty of rainfall and water in the River....The same is true for building a reserve...

However, during the past years when the times were good, development was rapidly occurring and impact fees from developer was coming into the City coffers at a fast clip, the City was spending like there was no tomorrow!! Never thinking that the economy could ever become what it is today....So instead of building a reserve when the times were good and the money was rolling in, the City was borrowing and spending money like we would neve need a reserve....

But now, that we could use extra money, we are in a drought... but all our neighbors are too....we do not need to build a larger reserve on the backs of our citizens who are suffering just like the city....

So if you want an increase in your City tax millage rate, do nothing.....

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