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Now we've talked a lot about taxes and I would like
to say to you that as a director of Iredell Memorial
Hospital, if I had to vote on this issue feeling that my
taxes or your taxes would be raised, I would be the first
to lead the band against it. I cannot tell you that an
atomic bond won't drop on Statesville, and I cannot tell
you that before this thing is finished taxes will not be
affected somewhat. But you would have to realize that it
would have to be a complete failure for you to have to
take over the complete indebtedness, and I would just like
to pledge to you the feelings of your directors and your
trustees in assuring you that to the best of our knowledge
with the best professional help we have been able to get,
from feasibility studies, from all the polls and things
that we have been able to have access to, some of them
scientific and some of them voluntarily, from all the
study that we have given this issue as we prepared to meet
the issue through the past several years, it is our sincere
and honest belief that this issue can be dealt with through
hospital revenues, and it will not become a tax payer's
burden. And I just wanted to share that with you. I remember
hearing through the years that we spend the first part of
our life ruining our health trying to get wealthy, and then
we spend the last part of our lives spending our wealth
trying to stay healthy.