County Chief Operating Officer Defends Phoney Tax Assesments

According to the St. Louis Business Journal, County chief operation officer, Garry Earls, is spending a lot of time defending inflated tax bills. He stated, "we're going to get lots of complaints, but there is no validity to those compaints."

Do you think somebody at the county should have done something about the 9% annual tax increases? Apparently nobody in the County thought so. The County and other taxing authorities kept taking the money and spending it. Now Earls says, "the real issue is if there's been a drop in property value. That will impact (collections) in 2009." You think?

Perhaps someone should have thought twice about taking wind falls due to inflated home prices. They did not. Now the County, our schools and our parks will have problems paying bills based in income they really did not have. Who will lose their jobs for this miscalculation..... no one. But you will pay.