The publisher of this paper makes no illusion to the fact that he is for the ACC annexation to where the average homeowner in Hays CISD will pay $160 per year in increased property taxes… FOREVER. (September 22, 2010) In faint praise rebuttal to Bryce Bales’ non-invitation to ACC (September 15, 2010), this publisher says that the ACC campus (beginning when, completed when?) on the 93 acres (not 100) and on land already purchased (actually only under contract, at $102,000 per acre [HOW MUCH?], the ballot box deciding the issue) will be a huge economic boost to the Hays CISD area.
Coming from a hardscrabble farm, (Publisher Bob) Barton in the same manner as LBJ has a long history of going against the odds in his causes for the common man and encouraging a Great Society here in Hays county. But his favoring the ACC annexation is a turnabout to his previous convictions as ACC is a huge, big business capable of all the shenanigans, sleights of hand and truth obfuscations. Remember a few years ago the attempt by ACC to annex San Marcos CISD? ACC certified the ballot petitions that had about 40 forged names. ACC went away quietly. But like in the movie Poltergeist, “Theyyyy’rrrre back!”
Go to the website www.noacctax.com and see the 30 and counting reasons why we should vote no on this annexation.
Unwittingly Bob has abandoned his cause for the common man because the consequences of this new tax will impact negatively on the finances of the common man, the struggling homeowner and his family:
1. With property taxes being already 20-25% of the monthly mortgage payment and foreclosures being 1,400 this last year in Hays County, this new tax could be the tipping point to a family on the precipice of losing their home.
2. How can ACC be an economic boost and be compared with Seton hospital, which stands on its own and doesn’t bleed upwards of $2.3 million per year from an already anemic taxpayer? Surely this declining pile of discretionary spending by the common man will be felt in his quality of life.
Bob, come back to your values. Come home, Bob. Come home.
Ray Wolbrecht
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