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I have often posted over the past several years that our true local tax demon is Pima County. We live in the most highly taxed county in the State. We recently were greeted by an Arizona Daily Star headline that informed us of a property tax rate hike because the property values had declined. There was no talk about cutting positions. Not a word was mentioned about cutting back on the take home police vehicles. They are mute on cutting the cost of the Sheriff’s Department or conducting a management study.
Now what is really interesting to me is what I heard from those of you who scream at the slightest Oro Valley tax hike: It was a deafening silence. The county just rolls along picking our pocket and you just grin and bear it. That truly puzzles me.
I have met some of you in person. I know many of you are truly good citizens of Oro Valley who simply happen to differ in opinion from me. But taxes are taxes and the money still comes out of your wallet.
So I ask you, why is there not a loud, passionate and sincere effort on your part to speak out against the true tax Satan, Pima County? What services do you get from Pima County that justify this larceny? Help me out here.
Don Cox
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