It will be a “cold day” before I vote for an increase in the county sales tax in order to fund the jail. The commissioners and sheriff are trying to drain the taxpayers dry by the constant begging, and we are getting tired of it.
If the county commissioners and sheriff are so hard up, I would suggest that they start looking toward their own exorbitant expenditures, such as:
1. Not ordering Mike Huff to repay the money the citizens of Sequoyah County were paying him while he was out seeking prostitutes and not doing the job he was paid to do.
2. All the overpaid commissioners should take a cut in pay. They are no better than the hard-working citizens of Sequoyah County are, and it would not hurt them one bit to every once in awhile know what it is like to not have the money to buy groceries.
3. If the overpaid commissioners and sheriff would take a cut in pay and quit living in luxury and come down to the level of the taxpayer, the county would sure not be in the predicament they are now facing.
M.G. COWLING, SALLISAW
