Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-27
CATECHISM ON
The ROAD TAX
Some Questions Which The Peo-
rle AYe Asking And Ans
wers To Them

What roads will be built from
the zoe tax?
The Irvine pike, the Boones-
boro pike, the Tate's Creek pike,
the Lancaster pike, the remain
der of the Lexington pike and
the Richmond-McKee pike.
Who will keep UP these pixies
after they are rebuilt?
The State of Kentucky and the
L. S. Government.
Why will this make other roads
in the county better?
All Of the present 25c road tax,
the county machinery and road
equipment can and will then be
used to build and repair the cross
pixies and dirt roads in the county.
Example: The city of Rich
mond paved its main thorough
fare, leaving the city's regular
street tax for side and cross
streets, and today her side and
cross streets are better than Main
street was previously.
Which of the State Aid pro-
iects will be built first?
The Citizens Committee and
the Fiscal Court promise you that
they will distribute the zoe road
tax fund on each of the state aid
projects in proportion to the
roads requirements and as the
State and L. S. Government will
accept them and that no one road
shall have preference.
A farmer asks-how will this
good road tax benefit me?
You will have better market
and selling facilities, the price OF
your farm land will advance TN
der good roads.
Example: The stock buver
goes on a bad road to the most
isolated farmer to buy bargains.
A laborer asks-how will this
good roads tax helm me?
1t will be the means of about
SoOO.OOO being expended for roads
in Madison county and labor will
receive the larger part of this
money-this in addition to what
IS now being spent for roads.
A BUSINESS man asks-how will
this good road tax help me?
1t will make your store or cf-
flee accessible to more people.
Your business depends largely on
the number Of people YOU are
able to serve. Good roads will
help you.
Will this Zoe tax benefit the
mothers Of the county?
1t certainly will, as good roads
mean less time spent on the road
to and from school, greater safe
ty on the trip
Now Is the me to make this
forward movement. v. ny?
Because we are paying into the
State Treasury at Frankfort
about $4,000 per year for auto
mobile license, onc~cent per gal
Ion gasoline and 3 per cent al
valorem tax.
Some may say this system Is
wrong but offer no way to cor
rect it. We can get this money
back from Frankfort and spend
on Our roads if we vote the zoe
road tax. If we don't other oun-
ties will take advantage of our
inaction and they are doing it
right now and will continue to
do so if we don't get busy.
Everybody Benehts More or
Less at Sometime in Somewav.
Why?
On account of the saving of
time. Suppose today you have
business in some part of the
county, or someone in another
part of the county has business
with you. Say the trip now takes
two hours, would not good roads
cut the time in half, with a big
saving of wear and tear on you
and your vehicle and of power.
no matter what kind you used?
If you saved an hours time going
for the doctor, or in his coming
to you, it might mean life.
Will our zoe road tax fund be
paid out wastefully or in a busi :
ness like way?
Every cent of this fund will be
in connection with the State Road
Department, paid out to contract
ors on specific road work at the
lowest bid in an absolutely econ
omical and business like way.
How much money does the zoe
tax raise for Madison county?
j Assuming that Madison realty
is assessed fo~ 6 years at SIS
100000, the tax will bring from
taxpayers 100000 and from the
State Aid Fund $c30000 and
. from the Federal Government