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<span style="color: #000000;">Scotland County has the well deserved reputation for the highest taxes in North Carolina. Despite such bounty, our Commissioners now want us to pony up for even higher rates.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Scotland County is in deep trouble that's for sure, but not because we don't pay enough taxes, rather because we already pay too much.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">The 10's of millions of dollars handed over to Commissioners has not been spent wisely, but squandered on worthless boondoggles, pet projects, blue sky dreams, featherbedding and outrageous salary/benefit packages for top officials.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">Friends, outside vendors, cronies and relatives may have been enriched, but we the citizens have nothing to show for such irresponsible use of public funds.</span>

Scotland County officials receive salary and benefit packages far above the levels their job performance could ever justify, especially since there are plenty of qualified individuals within our county who would be happy to accept these positions at half present salary levels.

Many Scotland County employees don't even live in the county. That's right, instead of their paychecks being recirculated here, supporting local businesses, and paying local sales and property taxes, our hard earned tax dollars are enriching neighboring counties and businesses.

Scotland County is slowly being bled to death by the very people we're paying to govern us. If all county employees lived in the county where they earn their paychecks, we wouldn't even be discussing the perceived need for higher taxes.

Scotland County Commissioners need to get off their butts, clean up their act and start doing their jobs, and Commissioner wannabe candidates need to start talking about real issues instead of nonsense designed to sidetrack and hood wink us.

<span style="color: #000000;">The rest of us must make do on our incomes. Why should County Commissioners and their entourage of parasitic moochers feel they can just step up to the taxpayer feeding trough every time they want more money?</span>

Each dollar you pay in taxes is a dollar less left in your pocket to spend on the basic necessities your family needs and deserves.

Albert Einstein said: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result". If Scotland County is once again to taste prosperity, it won't do so by doing the same things over and over again that got into our present mess.
<h2><span style="color: #000000;">Keep your money in your own pocket. Send Scotland County moochers and parasites a message. VOTE NO!</span></h2>
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