TAX HIKES IN AUGUSTA??

The right-wing liberal thinks it might be possible. He states..............
As I have chronicled the fight for the Augusta County GOP Chair, I have generally held to the opinion that the question of who was actually chair was not as important as the strength of the low-tax Republican activists, which had only been enhanced by this debacle and would certainly send tax-hiking cipher Emmett Hanger packing in 2011.
Of course, as someone who is a good two hours from Augusta by car, I would think of the statewide implications first.

There is, however, one local consequence of the Augusta County War that I hadn’t considered until SWAC Girl posted the list of Republican elected officials who backed Hanger’s choice (Larry Roller) - a local consequence that actually makes it imperative that Roller and Hanger lose.
If one looks at the list SWAC Girl provided, one will find four local Supervisors.
Since Augusta has a seven-member Board, that means a Board majority has aligned itself with the tax-hiking Hanger.
At first, this may sound largely immaterial from a policy perspective, but that could all change come next year’s budget.
Augusta, as I understand it, does its tax reassessment every four years; the next one is due in 2009.
Therefore, next year’s budget will be the first one with a new assessment.
Assuming property values rise (and that’s not an entirely safe assumption - what with two “up” years preceding two “down” years statewide), the local Supervisors could be in the position to pass a de facto tax increase that doesn’t look like a tax increase........

For Augusta Republicans and taxpayers, this is of paramount importance, and it is why they should hope and pray Michael wins. If he doesn’t, the grass-roots effort to prevent a tax increase must begin the moment Roller is installed as Chairman. Either way, the choice is clear - the temperature around the four Republican Supervisors must rise, or the taxes of Augustan homeowners will rise.
See his full post here