From the Rapid City Journal:
Pennington County voters Tuesday soundly rejected the proposed wheel tax that annually would have added $2.5 million to the county budget for road and bridge projects.
With all precincts counted, 59.6 percent of the voters said “no” to the tax, while 40.4 percent voted “yes.” Turnout was 15.3 percent of registered voters.
I’m betting the RV population had little to do with putting this measure over the top by this kind of margin. This was the kind of rejection reserved for Democrats!
This easily predictable outcome is not just a rebuke of more taxation, but also the method chosen by a heavy-handed legislature to force counties to increase taxes. Our bridges and roads must be maintained and that is a legitimate responsibility of government that must be funded, but no thought is given to finding the funding by savings or cuts where wants, rather than needs, are funded.
Bravo, Pennington County voters. Now let’s focus on replacing those that voted for this egregious tax scheme.
I wonder about the implications of the vote on the RC legislators over a potential sales tax to fund education.
Let’s have some primaries in Pennington County! This is the kind of rejection that used to be reserved exclusively for democrats, but now that Pennington County Republicans are acting like democrats, the primaries are the only safety valve!
Pennington County commissioners on Tuesday voted themselves a 20 percent raise