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Budget cuts to hit Salt Lake County's new police department

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New taxes? | 12:00 p.m. Nov. 4, 2009

How can one of the options being offered be to "passing on the pay reduction to county residents"?

Don't the residents of the affected areas have a say in enacting new taxes?

itsjustme | 2:16 p.m. Nov. 4, 2009

I guess what they are saying is that "households" in unincorporated Salt Lake County should plan on a $120 a year property tax increase. Would apartment owners be assessed that amount on each unit? How much would a business nave to pay?

Call it a fee, call it an assessment, call it whatever you want: It is still a tax increase.

MB | 10:50 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Why aren't they getting rid of the UPD change instead of making the costly change and then taxes the citizens?

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