11/20: Vail Daily Letter: County Still Overspending
Posted by Editor on November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As I wrote in a letter about a month ago, the county has increased spending almost 50 percent in four years. Every dollar of the 50 percent tax increase has been spent as fast as it has rolled in, and that is why the county is doing everything it can to gouge out the last dime from citizens worried about paying for food and other expenses. Some people will lose their houses as they won’t be able to afford more taxes.
Some of our taxes have gone for such essentials as county-subsidized day care (rejected by the voters but done anyway), trading in perfectly good cars to buy “green” Priuses at a premium price to save minimal amounts of gas, ripping out perfectly good landscape to build a “green” entrance to the county building at $250,000 and building an expansion to the jail for around $20 million that we will be paying for for decades.
