Protester Pays Tax With 3,573 Bills

So city officials had to count out the 3,573 dollar bills that tax protester Bob Marohn gave them; it could have been worse.

“Better than pennies,” City Administrator Don Lorsung said as Deputy Clerk Beva Olson laboriously counted out the $3,573.05 that Marohn hauled in.

“We have to accept the money the way it’s brought in,” Lorsung said. “If I sound kind of speechless, it’s because I am.”

Marohn was upset with what he considered unfair taxes on a piece of land he had just sold in this city.