AN UNOFFICIAL HOMEPAGE FOR BELL COUNTY RESIDENTS

I'm not going to let the Republican buy the office of sheriff." Seriff Dan Smith, as reported in Temple Daily Telegram, 13 Oct 1996 (when he was running as a Democrat!)
"Every new tax is immediately felt more or less by the people.  It occasions always sume murmur, and meets with some opposition. . . . . [D]ebt is not immediately felt by the people, and occasions neither murmur nor complaint."  Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776.