All Together — Can We say, “Again?”

By Chuck Ring

Santa Fe County will use bond proceeds which are supported by gross receipts taxes assessed county wide to finance yet another northern county project. Sometimes it seems that the county’s unilateral ways cause gross receipts taxes to fall out of the sky, but the truth is they tumble from businesses throughout Santa Fe County.

In some sense, folks in the Edgewood area should have little concern for taxes ripped from the City of Santa Fe (Santa Fe City gets more than its share) or other communities within the county, but we should be concerned for the tumbling taxes which roll from Edgewood to the Santa Fe County lock safes. In four to five years, if not sooner, all combined gross receipts taxes taken by Santa Fe County from Edgewood may amount to at least a million dollars a year. All such taxes taken from Edgewood to date as a cumulative total far surpass a million dollars. Over a million dollars that we as a community have little say about whether, or even when, some of the monies might gravitate downhill and back to Edgewood.

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2 Responses “All Together — Can We say, “Again?””

  1. Donna Seagrave says:

    I have lived in the tri-county area for almost twenty years, and it seems like we have always suffered from being on the edges of our respective counties. We are always the last to reap the benefits. Bernalillo County is of course, most concerned with the Albuquerque area, Santa Fe County with Santa Fe, and Torrance County – well, they are just too poor to do alot anyway.

    I look forward to the day (hopefully soon) when the population base in the area is large enough that we can band together and create our own entity that serves the needs of the population.

  2. Bob Steiner says:

    Ms. Seagrave says it all! Why not band together the “loose” elements of Western Torrance County, Campbell ranch – the South Santa Fe Corridor, and the seemingly forgotten Bernalillo areas East of Tijeras.

    “Sedillo County” might be a good name?