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Greenville GOP Blasts Tax Hike Proposal
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Anyone who gives them permission to raise your taxes is an idiot. Remember a few years ago when the Legislature jacked up our taxes, ostensibly “for road repairs and improvements”? Still, pot holes plague certain areas and roads. Did that money go into the pockets of Hugh Leatherman and/or his relatives and cronies?
As some of us predicted, it did not go into road improvements.
Letting politicians have more tax money is like giving cocaine to an addict. They never have enough.
They had the money for roads but the county administrator used it for his pet projects and not what it was intended for. First thing is he needs to go, if council extends him another contract they need to be voted out. They built a new county office building with so many cost overruns that it depleted money intended for other projects including roads. They gave sweetheart deals to developers with no return for the taxpayers. The new county office building is a joke. It is not functional at all and was totally unnecessary. They could learn from Spartanburg ,Spartanburg county spent money on a new courthouse and upgrades to other essential services and kept the old converted shopping center they refurbished for county functions and Spartanburg city built anew state of the art Police Department. The city of Greenville is about the same with their bike lanes, road narrowing and bending over for developers. The city of Greenville brought an old building at well above appraised value and crammed the police department , fire department and other services into it. Meanwhile they are annexing half of the county and not adding any police officers or fire protection. Now that they have squandered taxes on their pet projects they need a sales tax to fund core functions. People really need to wake up
Let’s make it clear, it is not a Penny Tax, it’s a 1% tax increase. For example, If you spend $100 on an item, 1% would be one additional dollar.