A couple years back, I wrote a letter questioning Clark County’s approach to rapid growth. I asked, “If this policy is beneficial, why are we paying more?” With growth comes increased revenue from sales and property taxes, more than enough to cover associated costs, right? Our taxes should go down, not up.
I never got an answer to that question — until now. A front-page article in The Columbian (“Clark County’s cost of living,” Oct. 29) contained this quote from Evan Sowers of Riverview Bank, “There’s been a lot of support and investment in our part of the world, and I think that has driven the cost of living up.”
So, there you have it. Not only does rapid growth destroy our environment, it charges extra for the inconvenience. Money and power gets what it wants, and finds a way for the rest of us to pay for it.
