The Standard-Examiner published a gem of a guest article this morning. Written by the Utah Taxpayers Association's Mike Jerman, it's a response to a July 11 Standard-Examiner editorial questioning whether Weber County's reported 2004 $.3 million-dollar property tax shortfall was the result of the diversion of property tax revenues by the numerous local RDAs.
I won't devote any of my own commentary to this discussion, at least not now. I thought it would be a useful to WCF readers, however, if I linked these two articles on the same page, so that the competing arguments could be conveniently compared and contrasted.
The original Standard-Examiner editorial can be found here, and Mr. Jerman's response is here.
I'll also note in passing that the Standard-Examiner wasted no time in getting Mr. Jerman's responsive piece into print. The original Std-Ex editorial was published only two days ago, and Mr. Jerman's response appears today. The Std-Ex editors deserve a tip of the hat, I think, for facilitating timely and reasoned debate on this very important topic. RDAs are a fairly new phenomenon, and it's in every citizen's interest to learn as much about them as we can.
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