I respectfully disagree that “any” tax should be subject to voter approval. We have a representative democracy, not a plebiscite democracy.

We elect people to make decisions and we hold them accountable to those decisions in future elections. The idea that every little tax and decision needs to be put to the voters is becoming silly.

I am as critical as anyone of the Board and some of their actions, but I’m not so knee jerk as to believe that they are entirely incapable of making reasonable decisions about fiscal matters in the county.

I am growing resentful of the anti-tax crowd that seeks to choke of government from doing much if anything at all. Public investments are critcal, the national highway system, schools, the University of Michigan, heck the internet started as a public investment even the military.

I wish that folks like you would take a step back and make an effort to understand the value of public investments. I think you might be surprised.

And…for the record, I am not an employee of the County and do not stand to gain one nickel from the millage.

ANY tax that the county (or city, or township) proposes to raise should be subject to voter approval; any organization receiving tax dollars for “creating jobs” (don’t they really mean “attracting? “) should be required to document jobs attracted, and demonstrate (not merely assert) that the jobs came to Washtenaw only because of the use of tax dollars.

There is no connection between attracting agricultural jobs with tax dollars, and attracting industrial jobs with tax dollars. Each activity should stand on its own, they should not be bundled.