Dawson County officials say they may be forced to raise taxes on a regular basis to avoid being handicapped in the future by new laws enacted recently by state leaders. “The bottom line of what I want to get out to property owners ... is if we increase our tax rate it’s not because we've got this list of things we want to fund but it's because this came out of Austin, and it's not our fault," County Judge Foy O'Brien said during a budget work session held on Tuesday by the Dawson County Commissioners Court. O'Brien and several of the county ...