The City Commission Is Concerned About Your Taxes. Are You?
Decatur Metro | November 25, 2008 | 5:33 pmOne of the things I’ve noticed about the evolving discourse over annexation here is the general lack of concern over higher taxes. It’s got me intrigued.
The city commission has always stated that the reason it has been considering annexation is to keep ahead of the higher millage that will become inevitable without it. But from what I’ve observed here, it seems like a significant portion of vocal participation on this site doesn’t really have a problem with paying more in taxes to retain the current level of city services.
Is this true? Let’s put it to a vote!
What’s better than a crappy online poll that skews towards those with lots of time to burn on blogs (read: white collar)? Well, we can check the 2008 city survey, which shows that 64% ranked the value of services for taxes paid to the city as “good” or “excellent”.
Not a perfect comparison, but its as close as we can get. I don’t think its too much of a stretch to assume that anyone who feels that taxes are too high wouldn’t rate “value” highly of a survey.
So maybe taxes aren’t as big an issue as the city thinks. Or maybe, this site discussion is just the city’s upper-crust ruminating amongst ourselves.