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November 09, 2005
Local Sales Tax Fails
The only issue of interest on our local ballot was a 1/2 cent sales tax increase, which failed by a vote of 10,349 to 1,639. The increase would've been earmarked for county road improvements.
Many voters echoed Adams statements, saying they supported road improvements but didn't agree with the county's tax proposal. Dick Pudas of Bentonville said he was "tired of taxes" and believed Black and the Quorum Court didn't work hard enough to investigate every potential source of revenue.
Sources such as bonds, increasing impact fees or even the revenue from legalizing liquor sales. Now that will be an interesting election issue next year, assuming enough signatures are collected to get the issue on the ballot.
Nothing like a wet/dry vote to get the Baptists all stirred up.
Posted by Rita at November 9, 2005 02:53 AM
Comments
An odd thing about working at night (in a small town in the middle of an empty desert) is that sometimes I start feeling a little twilight zoneish. Saw your post and started feeling human again so I looked up your new town. I've never been there, but it seems like a nice place. Thought it was interesting that in a town of less than 20,000 people there is a real estate site devoted to listing houses starting at $150,000. Here, in most of the towns with a population of twenty thousand or less, all of the houses combined wouldn't bring $150,000. We mainly live in shacks on dirt roads, but we do have plenty to drink.
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at November 9, 2005 04:47 AM
Okay, that's a really twilight zone-ish comment. :-)
Posted by: Keith at November 9, 2005 12:08 PM
Makes perfect sense to me, Keith.
Oh there's plenty to drink here. It's a short 10 minute drive to the Missouri line, where one can buy all the booze one wants (and it's cheaper too). Or one can visit one of the many 'private' clubs around town. In other words, it's one of those technically dry counties that may as well be wet.
It is a nice little town though, even if affordable housing can be hard to find due to all the corporate types who've moved here. You can find more houses in the $250K+ range than you can shake a stick at. But a livable house for under $125K is hard to come by. Which seems kinda strange I guess, since in most other respects B-ville is such a typical small town.
Posted by: Rita at November 9, 2005 05:05 PM