County Cuts Public Services to Lower Taxes
Benton County commissioners eliminate the positions of county agent and club leader to reduce the tax burden, ending agricultural extension services.
After April 1st, Benton county will be without both a county agent and county club leader. The county commissioners at their meeting last week decided not to appropriate any more money for the maintenance of these offices and they will automatically cease in this county at the end of March. A desire to reduce taxes was given by the commissioners for eliminating these offices.
“A desire to reduce taxes was given by the commissioners for eliminating these offices.”
The perennial struggle between maintaining vital community-based extension services and the public pressure to minimize property taxes remains a central point of civic debate in Washington's rural counties today.
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