The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education are both proposing tax increases for the coming year and the total tax increase could be over 11 percent for local taxpayers. Do you think such an increase is fair? Is there any recourse for taxpayers, or will they just be stuck with the increase?

"We will be stuck with the increase and have to eat it from now on." CLIFTON SCOTT Technician "No, it's not fair to the small minority of people that property owners have to pay the taxes and unless enough people raise their voice, nothing can be done." ANISSA MARXEN Fievet Pharmacy "I don't feel that the increase to property owners is appropriate. I do feel that in the form of a sales tax in which everybody who benefits helps pay for it, would be more in the line of good economics." TOMMY BRADFORD CSRA Home Health "I don't believe that it is fair and believe that we are going to be stuck with it." SHAWN TURNER Custodian-Cleaner