Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Douglasville voters will make a decision that will affect their property taxes for the next 20 years.  

Voting YES on this $23 million property bond will increase your city property taxes. The total cost of 20 years of principal and interest has not been publicly revealed.

Why did the mayor and the city council place such an important tax vote in a special election ballot where few people will know of the issue and turn out to vote, rather than the in the November general election?

Dear DCTC Supporters,

As you may know, advance voting is underway for the July 15 Primary Election. One important race this year is for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners.

Igor Malanchuk (Igor2008.com ) is challenging the incumbent Tom Worthan (www.TomWorthan.net ) in the Republican Primary.

by James Bell

I received an anonymous E-mail from “John” concerning the www.DouglasTaxes.com “Tax Savings Calculator”. John’s concern was that the calculations were too aggressive. The numbers were too high.

Here is what he said;

I think your tax savings calculator is a little aggressive. At your current assumption the 1% sales tax would = $40 million/year or $4 billion in taxable sales in Douglas County annually. The numbers I have show $899,440,748 in retail sales. That would = $8.9 million/year in tax savings. Great idea though, I just don't want you to loose credibility if someone starts thinking about those numbers. John”

Thanks John for your interest and input. Here is my response.

It’s Halloween season and the Douglas County Board of Commissioners are whistling past the grave yards. The rapid over-development of Douglas County is coming back to haunt us. It’s time the commissioners do the right thing and call for a moratorium on new home construction and water hook ups, before they destroy this county!

Our county is in a real quagmire. Our roads are full, our schools are full, our jail is full, but the drinking water reservoirs are near empty. The only solution officials offer us is a threat to cut off our water and a $1000 fine if we use it.