The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1910-04-07
Facts and Figores.

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sesments, taxes and expenditures o
Taney county. This statement does
not cover state taxes, road taxes and
school taxes.
The personal and real estate assess
ment as returned by the assessor is
$2,142,258. at so cents on the hun
dred dollars this would bring in
$1O.711. Add to this $1,7O0 collect
ed from the railroad and telegraph com
panies and merchants licenses and we
have $12,411. But mind you this is
the amount of taxes charged to the
collector, not the amount that will be
collected. Judging from past years
there will be about 81, 900 of this not
collected, leaving $11,411 as the "a
mount of collections. From this must
be deducted the collectors commission
of S per cent or $50, leaving as the
net amount turned over to the treasur-
er for the use of the county court
$1O,840.
Taney county has bonds outstanding
to the amount OF $41,50O. How are
these bonds to be paid when due?
To pay them the county court, accord
to law, is setting aside $4,000 each
year ASA sinking fund to meet them.
The bonds draw per cent interest or
$2,075, which added to the $4,000
placed in the sinking fund makes
$4,075, which deducted from the a
mount turned into the treasurer leaves
$6,766.
To get these figures together we
give the following table;
Total tax charged to collector $10,711
Railroad and Telegraph 1,7OO
12,41I
Estimated not collected 1000
Estimate of collections 11,411
Collectnr's commission $40
1854 |
To interest and sinking fund 4,O75 |
Leaving 6,766
This SOL is all that the court
has to pay the county officers, the jury
and election expenses. the cost of
keeping up the court house, fuel and
stationery, board of prisoners, keeping
Of paupers and insane. the costs in
criminal cases and other Incidental ex-
penses, in fact everything outside of
schools and roads. Where is there a
reasonable man who will say that it
can be done on less or that there is
:oom in that amount for any misappro-
oriations?
SOME POPULAR PALACES.
We sometimes hear statement
made like this; We used to get along
here when we didn't collect more than [
s8, 600 year in taxes and pay all ex-
,enses and some on the indebtedness, t
low we are collecting about $12, 900 on
eale state and personal and the rail- ]
Dad and telegraphs are paying $4,000
more, making $4,000, or twice as q
much as we used to get and we are '
rarely paying expenses and nothing l
m the indebtedness. Here are the {
allacies in that statement. First, a
While it is true that the railroad and 7
elegraph companies pay to the collec r
or each year $4,000, this amount in v
ludes the state, school and road taxes G
nd only 81, 200 goes to the county s
evenue fund, while these parties want Il
. count the whole 81, 1000 into the rev. t
n ue fund and then compare it with o
ne old conditions. Second, the court n
paying $4,000 year on the bonds Y
nd 81, 100 interest where these parties fl
ay they are paying nothing. a
Then they do not take into consid-
ration that there are certain expenses fc
be met now that were not then. b.
hese are the expenses of the primary VI
ection at about S. 1000, the salary of !,
e highway engineer at $500 and the d,
,penses of the superintendent of W
hools at $500. These expenses are &C
1t of the courts making but under 10
VS. passed by the legislature. We do -
IT think partisanism should be injected
to this discussion but If there are any O,