Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-11-03
How the Perea.CterO Tax DODGERS
Brought on the Present High
Rate Of TaxatiOn...

The table printed below Of eTs for unyp purposes during nineteen Year, include. ev.-,bm~
controlled by the county commissioner Thyc cannot raise or over the territorial or city euh.
A study Of this table Will reveal several Interestingly facts
Complaint is being made democrats of neht Ugh hM. liked by the present commissioner. rom
BftoS 1888 II the cmmishoHsh had levied sumcentO pal the cunu expenses the tm,w wound have
Oh higher unh hey are today but instead of doing that they sut from time to i'm current.
Expense bos and ond to fdo udaandngh deHednusw which they had created until in 1897 such
bonds rachdh the sum of s5W pdmMnga an average deficiency in tho our umIr q. u.
years Of over SO in each year
In 1897 tn limit was reached mo- more bond. Od be nsed and thu pops who had thus. mis-.
managed county anahs ehnrhshd cDrJ to the present board a majority of wbkh at least lna
pnSs
They increased eh levy rs general purposes in 1s FROM mills to mills to which tv wary,
o"Pmd by me esshfnna ~ to add ~ mHsk r the cehH bridge making a total of IN mills
TV also increased the levy for the S~r nndho mSh mills D5 mills hess Increases would hay.
been nSe"ary years before IL the formers COMMISSIONER had not repred to bods to pay expenses
Even Wit" these Increases he ~al 70 all county purposes excluding the ~ mills for the cOha
U" "m LOW ohy IL and 2"m Mills as sgsnt H and S0 mills In 1897 and Is and $500 mills
in 1895
Ayrs" experience showed that a further Increase sn necessary in the levy for the general fund
mains unchanged In ehteeta dH sinking fund wasd discovered there WIS a dsasny, going
b@ekf four or Ave years md for that fund additional s amounung to 8 m. have been mad.
which VIII not be necessary hereafter any more thnw vii be thee ohu bhda, levy with he Gr
uH"V" ADDITIONS amounting N mills thee total at hs year 70 MI purposes 10 99 mills; but
deiwtng tn IA mills leaves I& mills as TIT wd levy for all ordinary, county pmpss- mot AZ large
ash 1871 and but very little anger than in 1898
TIL wonder is That he commissioners have kptsd s at all without greater increase. Their
management must be better than that of their pedessos
1t must not be overlooked that prior to 1898 here vas 10 levy for he court fund the. curt *
pees having beer. paid rom the erHtlu treasury
Auenuonb JAILED to the fact that beginning with the year 1885, whom Marano s o6n took -
soma charge down t" 1885, there ass ans almost unbukeny yearly increase in the rats. nOtuth..nins
uea assistance of eN9N from bonds to make up dendenes
From 1854 to 1a ue@rb hre the t fund levy vast t made the tal rate for COUNT p.
poses increased IRON mills to IL mills an Increase of per GENITAL duns hat time the
commissioners issued sEsO or bonds to pay ordinary expenses.
From 1881 the first year of the curt levy. 1885, the rate increased from IL 10 mill. to Is us
mills an increase of eHy 20 per cent although the bond resource to helm out deficient rv.nu. Wi.
worked to the eNt Of n2Oo
And this increase has been cmcurrntw With Increase in the amount of taxable prpry in a.
cuny upon heh axes IAN be collected
w are now told that the remedy for the embarrassed condition OF I'm. n+v asn hh aa
Is OeOmmh the county business to Ties sans PeNao onnun~ which turing fourteen Years stead
lily increased taxation but could not pay expenses without n~mEs SSo of bonds and put the co-
V SO deeply IN d" TN" 1t cannot tonow another dollar under the Law for any purposes whatever
D"rauc appeals to do this thing are addressed specially to heS citizens of this city Thym must
hhk orn memories are short In 1895 Mariana otoh the chief man in their present unMoy conbpa
ton Marcos c del a, one of THERE candidates. and oir Cromwell as county commissioner. To-
c%edh county court hO" two miles away from u.s. and thereby imposed a continuing tax on the.
v commissioners At tn same time n~@ created 'so~ of debt for their curt hO. and jail upon
which we suu pay interest