Why we don't get what is due to us.

The county is in a tizzy about trees... Clay County gets Criminally low property taxes from Companies and Absentee land owners. $0.15 on the acre. We get practically nothing from the coal industry despite them using OUR roads. The Federal Government gives money to states based on the amount of federal land in the state and then the State distributes it. And South Eastern Kentucky, which has Danial boon National forest in it, and a higher percentage of Federal land then almost any other part of the state gets a penitence, a insulting token, glass beads cast before naive savages. And we take them and say nothing, because our politicians don't profit any more if the county gets the money.  So they do nothing, and don't care that nothing changes. We make less in Clay County then people in China do... And in China, they have better mass transit, better infrastructure and free health care. (Also longer lifespans then we do) We Die Six years younger then other Americans here. And we are not angry, we are not yelling at our county government to raise company/absentee property tax. We don't yell at them/the state to give us our fair do for out stewardship of federal land, We worry/talk about trees on the side of the road...