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J.B. Williams, J.D.

Collin County Propositions

Creating more debt and increasing taxes

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Collin County Propositions Summary

Courts and juvenile/adult detention facilities needs to be further broken down into, at least, 2 separate bond issues. This is like putting the roof replacement for a firehouse and adding a new library into the same bond. The two are not that closely related.

Alternatives to expanding the animal shelter need to be considered so that this does not because an on-going issue. Parks and open spaces are important but so are people not having to pay excessively for property taxes. Roads and bridges, well 380 should be covered more by federal tax dollars. It's not like the federal government is not already throwing around taxpayer dollars.

Blogs About Collin County Propositions

J.B. Williams, J.D. has published 1 blog on this subtopic. The most recent blog is summarized in the following section.

More bonds, higher taxes

Published: 2023-10-20
In total the bonds would be $683,374,764 - that is over 1/2 BILLION dollars.

J.B. Williams, J.D.

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