For the life of me, I cannot understand why we persist as a community in driving ourselves financially into the ground. For years I have complained very vocally in writing and in public about the amount of money we are taxed to pay for the "good life" in this town. Property taxes are now proposed to go up 27% AGAIN. Gary Person's awesome flippin job of economic development coupled with the incessant need to economically develop the state further on the east end, is coming on the backs of the lower population centers. It is ironic that we are being raped financially to make it easier for places with more jobs and cultural events better standards of care to "progress." How many people will be forced to sell their houses or will lose their jobs because the taxes are rising? This isn't growth, its economic starvation.
Maybe its time for a new city government, a new city manager and a new state constitution that protects the rights of citizens... all the citizens.
Bloggers Note.. I am including my previous post on spending issues since it is relevant to the discussion today.
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