EDITORIAL: The key to a healthy city is healthy
growth.
We want new people moving in and
starting new businesses who employ new employees. Those employees will move to
our area for the jobs. It's a healthy circle of life.
What's not healthy is a property tax
system that stunts that growth.
The property tax system in Columbus
is unfair and a deterrent to positive growth in Muscogee
County.
Right now, if you move to
Muscogee County and buy a home you
are taxed at rates much higher rate than the person who has lived in the house
next door for 20 years.
So you know what is
happening? People are moving to Russell or Lee County or Harris County where
the property taxes are much much lower.
They are spending their
money outside of Muscogee County.
Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson
is trying to get her plan on the ballot to change the issue.
We think the issue should
be on the ballot. Let's stop penalizing new people for living in Columbus.
Instead let's make this a friendly place they can afford to live.
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