To the editor:
My memory says sometime in 2015-16 a wheel tax was proposed for Bedford County and soundly rejected by the voters. The wheel tax was presented as either a wheel tax or a property …
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To the editor:
My memory says sometime in 2015-16 a wheel tax was proposed for Bedford County and soundly rejected by the voters. The wheel tax was presented as either a wheel tax or a property tax rate increase. The county mayor at that time (for whom the bypass 437 was named) stated that even if the proposed wheel tax was approved a property tax increase would still be needed.If I recall correctly the referendum rejecting the wheel tax also amended the county charter to prohibit a wheel tax unless and until the charter was amended again to allow a wheel tax. If this memory of mine is correct, why has this rejection not been mentioned?Large property owners then and probably now favor a wheel tax for obvious reasons. At the time in 2015-16 the proposed wheel tax or its alternate property tax increase would have cost me about the same.Won’t the numerous new McMansions “Starting at $400,000” generate worthwhile new tax revenue?Charles Brumbelow, 37160
