Beatrice Daily Sun on April 2: With end near, haste makes waste
As the 104th Legislature wraps up its work with a hurried tax plan, it’s a good time to remember that “haste makes waste.”
Somewhere in my newspaper archives (read “that box of stuff in the basement”) I have a 72-point slug of type (that’s big) from a Ludlow machine that says etsaw sekam etsah. Every editor, printer and reporter can interpret that. It was a “gift” to me from my first post-college real boss who wanted me to remember a mistake that I had made. No words were necessary. Just that shiny chunk of lead strategically placed on my desk some 40-plus years ago.
In the rush – and I am still NOT sure why – to get a tax policy in front of Governor ‘My Number One Priority Is Property Tax Relief’ Ricketts, lawmakers went back to the drawing board late in the session with another public hearing and a hurried proposal to give owners of agricultural land a larger property tax credit than the rest of us.
I am not sure if that would pass muster in the courts – should someone challenge it. I do know that at least one farm group had suggested it might seek to take the matter to the voters.