As they voted to bring the sales tax rate up to as much as 7 percent by mid-2027, Lincoln County commissioners taught a lesson about a different sort of cost this week: Disengagement.
Not a single person testified at the public hearing as commissioners voted to raise the sales tax rate beginning next year in an effort to credit it back to homeowners as property tax relief. And there could be a big price to pay for that.
I’m just as guilty. I was vaguely aware the state had made this an option for county government, but I found the whole concept such concerning policy that I figured few, if any, elected bodies would actually act on it…