Because of the increase in the tax roll, commissioners should be thinking about reducing the tax burden, rather than increasing it. Commissioners should put on their thinking caps and explore other possibilities. They might consider asking developers of large construction projects in the county's Northeast to share the expense of expanding and improving roadways needed to accommodate these new communities, rather than asking everyone living in the county to pay for a route that will benefit one select area. Commissioner Mary Kohnke argues that tourists would pay a percentage of the sales tax but that does not make the levy any less of a drain on the pocketbooks of all county residents. Additional tax paid by visitors would only give county commissioners a painless way of taking in more revenue to spend as they see fit.
Commissioners already know the road needs widening.
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