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ticular budgets. It’s important for us to look at the entirety. It’s a big red flag when we see a 22 percent increase. Where are we going in the future? It’s not easy going through the budget process and raising taxes. Are we getting a good handle on the numbers?”
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham said, “My main concern is the mandates leveled on the schools. Those and other mandates are killing small populated counties. The only solution is for elected offi-/ rials at the state and federal levels to take some of these obligations off our back. In every case they’re cognizent of the fact we have a limited budget and need to try to lessen the burden on real estate taxes as much as possible.”
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