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Originally Posted by Value Pack  Property Taxes, City Sales Tax, County Sales Tax, Compensating Use Tax, Storm Water User Fee, Municipal Court fines and what we get charged for water and garbage pickup is all from taxpayers in Dodge City.
The point I was endeavoring to make was that other Cities are using Dodge City as an example of how to get more money out of the taxpayers.
I don't care one way or the other as to whether Garden City or Dodge City belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. Furthermore, I am well aware of the fact that the City and the Chamber are two different entities although sometimes they seem to have the same brain.
I just think that it is worth noting that the examples that Dodge City is cited for in newspapers in not anything we should jump up and down for in joy.
Yes, Tee, everything in Dodge City costs more. That is not the message that will bring new business to Dodge City but that is the truth of the matter.
In the long run, for Dodge City and Ford County, that has got to change or there will be no rYou shoeeal business growth. |
But your point is flawed in the fact that this article is more based on local COC's and not on local taxes. What that article doesn't show is other members and their dues, or other communites and their breakdown for membership dues. You saw "Garden City is high compared to Hutchinson and Garden is based on Dodge" and immediately played the "were getting screwed" card.
Dodge City's COC has done wonderful things for our community, and they continue to work for us.