job cuts and tax hike double whammie for shelby county

Talk about when it rains it pours...well in Shelby County, TN not only does the county intend to layoff 100 county workers but expects a minimum property tax rate hike of 4%. Ouch. The expected tax rate hike is a minimum expectation since the proposal is current being debated. As for the 100 county workers headed for the unemployment line; 31 of them are with the County Sheriff's office which includes jailers. Talk about squeeze ball tactics. Yet another example of how the little guy gets caught up in the game of pass the buck and reverse Robin Hood. You can expect quite a bit of these burden shifting fear tactics to be widespread around the country considering the state of the economy. This is too bad for the good folks of Memphis. Even if you could digest the situation, to follow it up with job cuts too, is inconceivable. Not cool. Regardless of how you twist and turn it, job cuts and a tax hike is nothing short of a double whammie for the good folks of Shelby County.