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Article: Shortchanging our children: Barbour County schools needed brothers' share of property taxes
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- May 25, 2004
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IN A recent Gazette commentary, Kris Warner, chairman of the West
Virginia Republican Party, tried to explain how he and Monty Warner,
Republican candidate for governor, and his other brothers paid only
$5.57 in taxes on a building that was actually appraised at over $1
million by the state Tax Department.
The only explanation that Warner gives is that the old Broaddus
Hospital in Barbour County was considered "virtually worthless" when
he and his brothers bought it. The problem with this explanation is
that property taxes should be paid on what property is currently
worth, not on the original purchase price.
Had Monty and Kris Warner paid their fair share of taxes as the
rest of us do, they ...