Josh Schoemann: “In Washington county in my 12 years, our tax rate is about…”

“But then I thought that's what you were supposed to actually go do once you were in office. And it's what I've done. And let me tell you about what that means. So In Washington county in my 12 years, our tax rate is about half in this coming budget that I'm proposing, it is less than half of what it was when I first got to the county in 2013. Now, some of you know county government well enough to know that the tax rate is government math.” (06:07–06:20)

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