The STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT (The Report) has learned that Stark County Citizen-Activist Bill Daugherty is circulating petitions to get the recently Stark County Commissioners imposed 1/4% sales/use tax on the November, 2009 ballot.The question is: Will Daugherty and his fellow circulators succeed?
If they do, the 9-1-1 reform will be in serious jeopardy and Stark County finances will be rolled back to 2007 levels.
Do you wish Daugherty et al well?
How will you vote if the repeal effort makes it onto the ballot?
8 comments:
Daughtery must be against saving lives? Let it happen to his family and he will be out collecting signatures to keep it as it is. He is only doing this for attention or associated with the Republican Party.
I can understand why the people that are so upset about imposing the sales tax, but why are they being so silent about the proposed possible 52% AEP electric rate hike looming over every individual in Stark County heads. If one calculates that the sales tax that will cost everyone only an extra .25cents for every $100.00 dollars spent, keeping in mind things like food, medicine and other things are not taxable, and than calculates what a 52 percent increase on there electric bill it seems that these people are waging war on the wrong issue. If someone has a $50 monthly electric bill now and if this increase goes into place there new monthly bill will be $76.00 per month. If you divide that increase by what the additional .25 cents a person will have to spend an additional $1040.00 per month on taxable items to be equal to what the AEP increase will amount too. Where is the upheaval from the sales tax opponents on this issue, it is easily going to cost them several hundred dollars more a month and the sales tax is going to cost only a few dollars. The last time I checked the AEP increase is being imposed by the PUCO and that is not going be able to be over turned at the ballot. We need to pick our battles wisely and clearly AEP is the bigger battle to our personal and over all economic right now.
So since the Commissioners promised they were going to repeal the original .25 sales tax, are they circulating a petition as well?
Mr. Daugherty, bring that petition to me. I will sign it right now. And you can say that I don't want to save lives or whatever iggnorant ass thing you said...because it isn't true. I am all for saving lives. I am not for writing this board of Commissioners a blank check.
And I am a Democrat. Does that mean I am trying to carry favor for the Republicans??
Democrat or Republican your comment above only proves that you are one the uneducated people in Stark County. Where is your willingness to take on the AEP increase that will increase your monthly electric bill by 52%, that is going to cost real money each month not the nickles or dimes the quater of percent tax will cost you to fix 911.
Regardless of how we vote, put it on the ballot, and the persuade us why we should support it. That's how we do it here.
Then main concern I have heard from "my fellow Stark Countians" is that 1/2 the increased revenues will go to the County General Fund. If the whole increase was 911 related, I think there would be less complaints. They have now tied funding the 911 upgrade to increase General Fund revenues for the county...in hopes that the concern over 911 will outweigh people's concerns about the higher sales tax for the county. Time and a Ballot Initiative will tell if the Commissioners gamble worked...
This guy is a huge joke! Whatever.
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