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Show County Taxes Go Four Ways At Once As a county commissioner, Dr. S. B. Rigby hears a good deal of beefing about the expenditure of money taken in by the county in taxes. It's high time, he says, people got it straight where their dough goes after the county assumes custody. In the first place, explains Doc, each tax dollar received re-ceived by the county is divided into four taxes. These four taxes are the county tax, the city tax, the school district tax and the state school tax. The proportion of the tax dollar alloted to each one of these agencies varies from year to year. By way of illustration illus-tration let's take a look at what happened to a Mt. Pleasant taxpayer's dollar in 1943 as compared to what happened to it in 1949. In 1943 each dollar paid in taxes to the county was divided as follows: 34 per cent, city tax; 32 per cent, county tax; 28 per cent, school district tax, and 6 per cent, state school tax. In 1949 the percentages of your tax dollar received by the four agencies had changed considerably and were as follows: 39 per cent, school district tax; 30 per cent, city tax; 17 per cent, county tax, and 14 per cent, state school tax. This means that in 1949, as contrasted to 1943, the proportion of the tax dollar devoted to the school district tax increased 11 per cent while the state school tax increased in-creased 8 per cent. Meantime the proportion devoted to the county tax was 15 per cent lower in 1949 than in 1943 and the city tax was 4 per cent lower. We sincerely hope that the above makes things clearer and that Doc Rigby will be the target of less beefing. On the other hand, if the above does not make things clearer, we recommend you have a talk with Doc. |