The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-06
TIME FOR TAXPAYERS TO TAKE NOTICE.

The Dare County Board of Commissioners are spending
more than quarter million dollars year Of the peoples
tax This does not take into account more than
State and funds goes to recipients
public welfare rolls does it take into account than
one hundred thousand dollars wear that comes into the
county to nav teachers Salaries and to nav other school
operating COSTS First and last counting other
a half million dollars year for
The Commissioners OF Dare County are not spending
their money Dare County neither has money of It's
What they spending out of pocket and the
pockets of other taxpayers More than quarter of mil
lion dollars year.
Not all OF this spending necessary lot of it goes
people put the county payroll who give time work.
OF very t OF IN return dor the money tney TAKE
doing the work for which they paid have their work
done by other people who are also paid by the
the responsibilities of their position Some OF them could
not out private life and earn as much as the county
gives them surely not in the little time they devote to their
jobs
1t important begin thinking about getting who
will put house in order Our system needs undermining
waste eliminated will be done as long as the pres
emit system prevails will it be done by or two of us
working alone only be done by the people uniting
and eectng and supporting men who will give time to the
job, and common business principles IN the puohc IN
It will take men of vision resolution and courage who
cannot be swayed by threats appeals of people who
have grind will require welding the axe to get
the deadwood the deadheads and other burdens that
sap the life of county treasury We can never get ahead
under the present system and the present methods We Will
progress get moneys worth until changes
This is serious matter. 1t calls for ou-searchmg
ourselves seriously what we getting Tor ne
great amount of money that being spent Are we gong
to be content to let this forever and not get Wat we
paw it to toll and struggle and deny
ourselves things ought to have in order to pay taxes
to be wasted?
Now is the time something, if There is only
week left in which able and consecraed men may be
brought forward to file for this task may be thankess
job, but somebody has got to do it
Year after year hear the old cry from men who now
manage affairs lust elect more time, and
after year go up and get for what is
spent What has happened How do know what to be-
eve? We have heard many times and still 60
ing to be dumb bells forever and believe everything that is
told us?
One may say if the rest stand it, 1; it is all
right with me- But that is the wrong viewpoint for our
failure do something is making mighty hard for lot
of helpless other people There who can't stand
There many of who will suffer because business
lost people The of making living is lessened
each year. investors whom depend frightened
they have say about how much taxes will be heaed
upon them and where they cannot depend upon the c
to stand firm and protect them.
There greedy of course who get in office and
for what they get out of the deal for themselves their
relatives and their friends willing to kill the goose that
lays the golden eggs for all of They have nothing to
lose they don't pay the they out for the fast
buck the easy life and the high old time the citizens
who must rise change things and protect their interests
and build encouraging atmosphere for those who might
invest their money with It's all to the people Are
people men or mice?