Today's Midland Reporter-Telegram tells us the following:
The council met briefly Tuesday to receive input from the public regarding the proposed tax rate of $.6420 per $100 of property, but no members of the public were present to address the council with their concerns.
"I take that as a good sign," At-large Councilman Bill Dingus said. "I think if we weren't running our business properly there would be a lot more people here."
In other words, since everybody was at work when the meeting was held then they must approve of a higher tax. Oh yeah?
More:
"Our responsibility is to make this town better and raise people's property values," Dingus said. "If we do our job well, people's taxes will go up because property values are going up."
Uh, yeah, but isn't this double dipping? If the real estate values go up but the tax rate per dollar of valuation stayed the same then the taxing entities could expect to receive a higher tax revenue. So isn't this a tax increase on top of that? Surely a politician wouldn't try to confuse us.
Where's the Jessica's Well crew when we need them? JW, call your office!!!
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