By: bota on 7/15/08
How much of this will go toward paying down our $221,000,000+ debt? That's about $221 for everyone that was counted. All Haley ever tells us is that he is getting good interest rates and that there will be no increase in property tax this year. meanwhile he is hocking our future.

By: citizenkane on 7/17/08
This is all I hear; how great we are doing in Rutherford County, how much this will bring in and that will bring in and as we speak The County Mayor wants to take retirement benifits away from county employees. They constantly squabble over new schools and how we will pay for this and that; they do not want to fund departments, they do not want to pay for infrastructure, security. But, I read stuff like this all the time. Sounds more like some bad management over the years with poor planning added to the mix. sick of hearing it. Simple plan, you do not want to pay for growth, quit approving building permits. And yes I do know this story was about the city of Murfreesboro but it spills over to county govt(and eventually M'boro will have to raise their property taxes by 15-20 cents in one year to keep up with this "job growth and opportunity")I rather property taxes increase 1 and 2 cents a year then borrow borrow and borrow, both the county and the city have enormous debt that we are facing. I wish I could afford to run my household this way.