The problem with county budget is too much spending, not too little taxing

The problem with county budget is too much spending, not too little taxing

County commissioner Ed Priola has proven himself a real friend of, and advocate for, Alamance County’s taxpayers this week. We commend his efforts to dig deeper than most commissioners typically go into the proposed budget and to devise his own plan for reducing some of the outrageous spending increases included by county manager Heidi York and, instead, keep the property tax rate flat – at the already high rate of 46.9 cents per $100 valuation.…