Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-11-02
BOCCS ANSWERS
OBJECTIONS TO TAX
State Highway Engineer Tells
Rotarians What Voting Road
Tax VIII Mean to Madison

the meeting of the club Tuesday
Mr.. Boggs was one of the
guests of honor Of the club, 9th
ers being Congressman Ralph
Gilbert, Arnold Hanger, of La
fayette, Ind, DR.. ]. @. Bosley
County Clerk Brother" Turlsy
William Sneed, OF Hamilton. O..
and NJ. G.. NanBuskirk, of Gales
burg, O.
All Of the guests were intro
duced and each had few words
to say. DR.. Bosley pied for CO.
operation on the part OF Rotar-
ians in making Richmond more
sanitary. Mr.. Hanger, mem
Der of the KiwaniS club, gave a
word of fraternal greeting. Dr.
NanBuskirk, a leader in boys
work, urged Rotarians here to
give this great matter important
consideration.
In his remarks, Mr.. Boggs
said that the question OF the
road tax seemed to be very ia
miliar to most of the people Of
Madison county at presen. So
instead OF devoting his talk to
the advantage of helping Madi-
son secure good roads, he would
try to answer some OF the OBJ
iections which he has heard. In
the first place, he said that if
the road tax is voted, the pres
ent county road department will
have nothing to Go with hand
ling of the money or the work
OF building the roads. He show
ed how the State makes the
contracts and carries on the
work entirely and he called "a
tention to the high type citizens
which have been appointed to
handle the proposition on behalf
OF the county by the Fisca,
Court and whose approval mus
be secured to anything done by
the county.
Discussing the question as to
increase in taxes Mr.. Boggs sa 4
that the average citizen probab-
ly doesn't pay on over $5,COO in
property. The special tax OF
this amount would be $40 a ysar
and he declared that certainly
any good citizen ought to be
willing to spend that much to
build good roads. lie pointed
out some things that the people
spend their money for that
amount to far more than this
and yet they give their luxury
costs no thought. For instance
he SAYS an average citizen may
smoke Soc worth of tobacco al
day or 50 a month or $108 d /
year; some average citizens g.
to the races, base ball or foo
ball and spend a $40 bill before
they know it and YET some are
protesting against the small ad- |
ditional amount ehey will, have |
to pay to get good roads fo |
their community, \ great ma
ny people, he said, pay abso- |
lutely no attention whatever f. !
what they spend for non-essen-
tiais and luxuries, yet protest !
vehenently if they are asked to |
give $40 a year for what S get
ting to be real necessity |
good road
Mr.. Boggs sail that there are
about l,zU0 automobiles in Mad !
ison county and he estimates
that the operation Of these cars
costs $lC0 a year extra because
OF being run over bad roads and !
thus the automobile owners Of !
Madison are losing $4,000 a /
year pad out for tires, repairs,
etc. to their machines, simply
because Of the bad roads that
can be remedied by voting the
road tax. Mr., Boggs showed /
the great loss that the farmer
sustains in hauling to market
obtaining access to his markets /,
etc. which he has touched on
.LefDre.
He had heard it said that the
laboring class do not need goodl
roads but here he pointed out !
that 90 per cent of the cost of
building roads is IN labor en-
ployed. Madison will raise aboutt
$4,000 a year out Of the tax, iii
voted, he SAID, and of this about
$4,000 would be spent on hiring
labor to build the roads. So it
is very evident that the poor
man and the laboring man of !
this section has a very vital and
a strong interest in seeing that
this tax is voted, for it will
mean plenty of work at good