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Letter to the Editor: New emergency services tax: Was fire infrastructure the reason – or the pretext?
What happened
St. George City Council approved a $120 million emergency services tax to fund fire infrastructure, despite public opposition, with the measure passing 3-2.
Timeline
- St George News (Washington County) Letter to the Editor: New emergency services tax: Was fire infrastructure the reason – or the pretext?
- Cedar City News (Iron County) Letter to the Editor: New emergency services tax: Was fire infrastructure the reason – or the pretext?
- St George News (Washington County) Letter to the Editor: St. George councilwoman says emergency services tax is no budgetary ‘trick’
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Letter to the Editor: New emergency services tax: Was fire infrastructure the reason – or the pretext?
— A letter to the editor criticizes St. George City Council for passing a $120 million EMS sales tax framed as funding fire infrastructure, but the author argues it was actually a strategy to free up general fund money…