[stickman]

In reading the local papers regarding the County Commission's new "golden goose", I have a question to pose to the County Commission and the citizens of Marengo County.

The projected revenue from the one cent sales tax the CC's have imposed upon us is roughly $1.5 million, give or take a couple of hundred thousand dollars. With uncompensated "indigent care" at the Bryan Whitfield Hospital quoted to be $1.2 million / year for Marengo County's share, just how in the world does the County Commission expect to renovate the courthouse, pave every dirt road in the county, and do all the other projects they say they want to do on $250,000 a year, which is all you will have left after you pay the Whit this indigent care each year? How does the county expect to pay back a $20 million bond issue on $250,000/year? Heck, you can't even run the county on what you've got budgeted now! This I gotta know!

Comments welcome, especially from our glorious County Commissioners!