Letter to the Editor: Don’t frame property tax rate in moral terms
Cardell Orrin of Stand for Children Tennessee (center) leads a coalition of a dozen local nonprofits calling for the city and county property tax rates to stay the same to fund a “moral agenda” of items the groups favor. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
‘I’m not opposed to funding social programs, but let’s do it without pretending there’s morality in extracting money from people this way.’
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