BONUS LOTD
I don’t think I’m going to be too popular with the political class when this one gets published:
“I’m disappointed, but ready to try it again,” Cumberland County Commissioner Jeannette Council said. “I think many of our citizens perhaps did not understand it.”
Thank you, County Commissioners, for your leadership in the recent tax hike debacle. On behalf of the 9,328 citizens who voted against the sales tax hike, I apologize. We voters were just too stupid not to see the wisdom in hiking our taxes (again) just as the county is slated to save millions of dollars in the Medicaid swap.
We were too dumb to see that this vote really wasn’t rushed through so that you could avoid the prospect of facing potentially angry voters when your jobs would also be on the line in ’08.
We just couldn’t comprehend how hiking the sales tax, a highly regressive tax that hits the poor hardest, was to be preferred over hiking the land transfer tax that hits the well-off (and your campaign contributors).
And we were just too plain ignorant to understand that your whole “maybe we’ll cut your property taxes if the sales tax hike passes” only just looked like a bait and switch in the making.
I look forward to you Commissioners attempting to raise our taxes during an election year.