EVERY POSSIBLE TAX INCREASE APPROVED BY CLARK COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE 2026 BUDGET

It was a tax-and-spend binge at the County Council this week. Unfortunately, we all saw this coming under Sue Marshall’s leadership. She telegraphed it during her State of the County speech when she warned that “new revenue sources” would be needed — and that is exactly what happened. They left no stone unturned when it came to raising your taxes.

Sue Marshall has now voted EVERY TIME to raise your property taxes. In fact, one of her very first votes on the Council was a vote to raise them.

Let me tell you how this game works:

They overspend, create a structural deficit, and then use that deficit — along with “uncontrollable factors” — as justification to raise taxes again. It’s a cycle built on bad budgeting and political convenience.

This week, the Council voted to take the full 1% increase plus the banked capacity. That means a 1.8% increase in your property taxes. And just like every other taxing entity — schools, special districts, you name it — they use the same talking point:

“It’s only a few dollars more.”

But it’s never just a few dollars.

Each group overspends, expands programs, hires more staff, or launches initiatives in the name of whatever the cause of the day is — “climate change,” “equity,” or some new bureaucratic priority — and then comes back the next year demanding even more of your money.

Councilor Belkot was the only one to vote against the 1.8% increase.

Not one of the others voiced concern for the elderly, those on fixed incomes, first-time homebuyers being priced out, or families already struggling with affordability in Clark County.

Yet Democrats like Sue Marshall and Wil Fuentes have the nerve to tell voters that they are the party of the “working class,” that they are fighting for affordability. You’ve probably seen their propaganda signs claiming exactly that. Meanwhile, while you’re at work, they are raising your taxes at every opportunity.

Here are the tax increases they approved for 2026:

• General Fund Levy — 1% plus banked capacity (1.83734% increase)
• Conservation Futures Levy — 1% plus banked capacity (16.142582% increase)
• Road Fund Levy — 1% plus banked capacity (1.87661% increase)

TOTAL TAX INCREASE APPROVED FOR 2026: $13,514,878

Fast Facts

• 2022 Salaries (before Baker Tilly compensation study): $84.6 million
• 2026 Salaries: $117.6 million
• Increase in salary costs in four years:39%
• Clark County population growth during the same time:7.7%
• National private sector inflation increase for wages: 12-18%

A 39% increase with only 7.7% population growth.

That is not sustainable.

That is not “affordability.”

And it is definitely not “working for the working class.”

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The voters of Clark County have voted to reject light rail in Clark County on three separate occasions. At the March 18, 2025 Clark County Council meeting approximately 150 citizens were in attendance with several dozen offering public testimony. Easily 80% of those who spoke during the 2-1/2 hours of comment were there to support Michelle and oppose the actions of the other council members.

Evidence will prove this was an orchestrated hit job on Councilor Belkot. Please support our only County Councilor who is standing for her constituents, and please pray for her as this understandably has taken a toll.

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A Skamania County Sheriff’s Office report is recommending fines be levied against four Clark County councilors and a charge or letter of reprimand for County Manager Kathleen Otto after violations were found when the council voted to remove Michelle Belkot from the C-TRAN Board

Paul Valencia

Clark County Today

A Skamania County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) investigation has concluded that four members of the Clark County Council violated the county charter and the rules of procedures as well as the Open Public Meetings Act. Plus, the county manager could be charged with official misconduct...

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