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Hypothetically, should Yacolt voters get to vote on a library in Ridgefield when only Ridgefield taxpayers would pay for it and only Ridgefield residents would use it? Of course not.
This is why taxing entities create subdistricts, to allow a well- defined group of voters to decide if they alone will be taxed to pay for something that they alone would use. Critics call this gerrymandering, which it is not. Allowing people to decide their own taxes for their own services is pure democracy. Devotion to that concept sparked the American Revolution.See the full content of this document
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In Our View: Who Decides?
Creating subdistricts has succeeded and failed here in recent years. In 1998, 70 percent of voters in the Salmon Creek and Felida areas approved cr...
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