We merely CANNOT AFFORD IT. As one of the 10 poorest counties in Alabama, we have numerous other needs (comparable to streets and roads, jobs recruitment, recreation, colleges, legislation enforcement, and so on.) and we cannot afford to put all of our available taxing and borrowing ability into this one project. The Tanner plan requires us to borrow greater than $20 million dollars to construct a big hospital on which Tanner will pay no hire and is prone to walk away from after ONLY 5 YEARS whereas our debt and tax will final 30 YEARS. This tax will take more than $seventy one million dollars out of the Randolph County (principally Roanoke) economic system over the following 30 years.
It’s like having a charcoal hearth burning all the time and extra gasoline comes alongside, like wind or oxygen, then you will have a raging inferno and get symptomatic,” Dr. Kercsmar …