February 8, 2012
Open Letter to St. Mary's County Taxpayers
John Boyd, business owner and treasurer of Town Hall Alliance
An Open Letter to St. Mary’s Taxpayers
My name is John Boyd.
As a senior citizen and business owner, I know that all of us live on relative fixed incomes. Why have our County Commissioners (with the exception of Larry Jarboe) voted to allow our property tax bills to escalate as greatly as we suffer through the present crisis?
I watched our local elected representatives vote to spend tax dollars on high priced property deals while closing the door to public forums. They even held the questionable Hayden Farm acquisition hearing on Christmas Eve, assuring a smaller turnout to witness and question their underhanded deeds.
Only Commissioner Larry Jarboe voted NO to this and all the other abuses of power.
Rather than suffer quietly, I decided to take my government back.
I volunteered to serve as Treasurer on the slate of Republican candidates who have a reasonable plan to hold the line on your and my property tax.
They will return open government back to St. Mary's County.
Each one of these individuals on our Town Hall Alliance team has the common sense we need to represent us in the Mother County. Larry Jarboe, Randy Guy,. Danny Morris and Rich Johnson will serve us well as we face continuing economic uncertainty.
Your donation in support of our commonsense slate of candidates will help secure a majority of elected officials who share your values. Your money will be well spent to get not one, but four conservative County Commissioners elected.
Please take a moment of time to write out a check for the Town Hall Alliance. We have established the Town Hall Alliance website so we could better communicate with St. Mary’s taxpayers. On it you find blogs where you can participate in sharing your views on a wide range of topics already started by taxpayers like yourself. Join us there and feel free to post on the topics already in progress. Additionally, donations can be made there using a credit card. You can find us at www.townhallalliance.com.
There is no need to suffer through four more years of tax and spend. But now is the time to begin the task of taking back our government. Won’t you please help?
Thank you,
John Boyd
Treasurer
Town Hall Alliance
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Last year constant yield would have saved the tax payers of St Marys county six million dollars. The current county commissioners said, they could not afford to go with constant yield, only Larry Jarboe wanted to go with constant yield. The other four commissioners decided to buy the Hayden Farm for five million dollars last year. Had the four commissioners considered the taxpayers and not purchased the Hayden farm, constant yield would have been possible. The county could have afforded a one million dollar reduction in the budget. Why bring this up? Fact: 10 years ago our budget was 100 million dollars Fact: this year our budget will be 200 million dollars Fact: our population has grown approximately 12% Fact: your tax dollars are being wasted. VOTE COMMON SENSE THIS YEAR
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