Viewpoints
High taxes in Ketchikan
By John Harrington
April 23, 2010
Friday PM
It is interesting that Mr. Rodney Dial is complaining about the
high taxes in Ketchikan. Our taxes are indeed too high. Those
tax rates are higher than most consolidated city/borough governments
in Southeast Alaska. When a group of us were attempting to consolidate
the two governments, Mr. Dial led the charge to stop it by claiming
it would raise our taxes. We had determined quite the opposite
in our calculations. But Mr. Dial prevailed in his anti-consolidation
efforts and now have received what he tried to avoid, higher
taxes.
As a Borough Assembly member,
I will continue to fight for lower taxes, less government regulation,
and more economic development. But all those activities would
be much easier in a consolidated government.
If Mr. Dial wants to start
a petition to combine the governments I will volunteer to assist
him.
John Harrington
Ketchikan, AK
About: Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Assembly member.
Received April 23, 2010 - Published
April 23, 2010
Related Viewpoint:
 Ketchikan
is becoming more expensive every day. By Rodney Dial
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