Tax Increase `Bait and Switch`
Gwinnett Daily Post reporter Camie Young touches briefly on an alarming revelation: the County Commission may not spend revenue from the recently-passed tax increase on police officers, fire stations and libraries after all. Instead, the county may apply the funds to the county’s growing accrued liabilities:
The $59 million Gwinnett County will collect next spring during a second billing of 2009 taxes could be set aside for employee pension liabilities, the county chief financial officer said.
