Consider your taxes when you make choice

Before we head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 3, I urge everyone to get out their tax bills due in December and compare them to your 2008 bill. Did anyone’s go down?
My supervisor, Jack McCrady, told me: “We’re not going to raise your taxes.”
The board likes to point fingersat the appraisal board, but regardless of who is to blame, when I pay more each year, my taxes have gone up!
What do we get from this? Ball fields that have yet to be built on land which was purchased at an inflated price? Remember the controversy over buying the land from Clifton-Stewart? Money is spent for retreats, conferences and meetings in other areas when the economy here could use the money.
New businesses and jobs have been turned away from the county for various reasons and the taxpayers are asked to pick up the tab for wasteful and useless spending because “revenues are down.”
If the county was friendlier to business we would have more revenues coming in from them. Also, new business brings in more jobs! Wouldn’t this be a good idea?
It is time, starting in 2009, and continuing in the 2011 election, to elect seven new supervisors and give someone else a chance to run the county. As Bill Clinton repeatedly said at the 1992 Democrat Convention, concerning the incumbent Administration: “It is time for them to go!”

Jeff Hockett
Abingdon, Va.