Crooked Land Scams at Landfill-w-Déjà vu!!
Robert A says, “I TOLD YOU SO!!!”
Folks, The Commissioners refused to allow the public to speak at this “phony” May 20, 2025 Commissioners Meeting. So, Robert A stayed home! And, so did everybody else. Robert A had already calculated that a “Revenue Neutral” Property Tax RATE should be around 55% lower because the new 2025 Revaluation values were 55% higher than last year. So, Robert A used all the right numbers and came up with a new TAX Rate of 48.01 Cents per $100 in property value. And, that anything HIGHER than 48.01 Cents per $100 Property value would be a Property Tax BILL INCREASE.
At the CC Commissioners Meeting last night, the Property Tax RATE for the 2025-2026 Tax Year (and for at least 40 years more) was given out as 54.50 Cents per $100 of the NEW Property VALUES. Which means YOUR average tax bills will be 6.49 Cents per $100 in the NEW Property Value that was just sent out recently.
So, folks, Divide Your NEW Property Tax Value by 100 and multiply by $0.0649 and the result will be your average 2025 Tax Increase.
Let’s practice doing this calculation: Say your house and surrounding property was Revaluated as being worth $100,000.
100,000/100 = 1,000
1,000 X $.0649 = $64.90 TAX INCREASE in YOUR Property Tax Bill
Your car Taxes will also increase at this same rate. And if you rent, your rent per month will also increase. There will be no exceptions. Your landlord will see to that.
Now folks, remember that your Property Tax Rate last year was 68.75 per $100 in value. And the NEW TAX Rate is only 64.50 Cents per $100 in Valuation.
Robert A bets the farm that the Commissioners, after formally voting to approve the new 2025-2026 Budget will be claiming that they are actually LOWERING YOUR TAXES!!! It is an old trick that fools many. Raise the Value a lot and lower the tax rate just a little.
Pick the Taxpayers pocket for MORE and then claim you just saved them lots of $$$. Is it any wonder why the Commissioners don’t care to require the CCS School Board to improve their student’s education by teaching them Critical Thinking Skills?
One more thing. The NEW 2025-2026 County Budget also includes giving the Solid Waste (Landfill) folks an additional $8 Million to OPEN a new “Cell” for burying garbage. Remember the folks just off New Prospect Church Road that put in for a permit for Solar Panels that the County approved, then disapproved. Robert A smells a rat here.
It is highly possible that the County Commissioners (Kevin Gordon, Deb Hardin, Johnny Hutchins, Deb Hardin and Doug Bridges) are about to condemn (under Eminent Domain) this property off New Prospect Church Road and require the property owner to sell cheap, bring in a middleman who will buy cheap, and turn around and sell high to the County (with a kickback to the Commissioners). It is an old trick. Note that the property that now includes the County Shooting Range was originally forcibly purchased that way as it was intended for Landfill use. Perhaps the Property Owners off New Prospect Church Road could fight against the crooked shenanigans of the CC Commissioners and require the County to re-convert the Shooting Range back into space (a Cell) for burying garbage before they could take the Solar Farm Property. Wouldn’t that be a Hoot!!!
Robert A will republish one of his first articles about the Commissioners and Gardner-Webb conspiring on a garbage dump land-scam that enriched one of their buddies by a very large amount. Names were named and lots of taxpayer Dollars were fraudulently exchanged. ALL recorded at the Register of Deeds Office.
