"The legal object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not so well do, for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
A penny not spent is a penny of taxes that you don’t have to obtain.
- A government’s authority to tax its citizens must be framed by its responsibility to use all revenues wisely for the common good and not just for the benefit of special interests.
- Adding a penny to the levy here and there amounts to incremental intrusion into the pockets of the taxpayer. In 2009, 16 cents was added to the existing 32 cents equivalent levy. That was a 50% increase on the real estate rate. It wasn’t incremental. It was devastating.
We want more "Common Sense" spending by our local government and school board. Taking a fast track approach to new projects has put us into a tremendous amount of debt for a small county. Act in haste; repent in leisure.
Proposed solutions to our problems should be logically debated in public forums, not in “executive sessions”. Short public comment periods are not informative debates.
We want greater transparency and accessibility to documents and details of how our money is spent. Covering up decisions and facts with a blanket that can only be removed with a Freedom of Information Act request puts a cloud over open government. Our citizens need access to information.
We want governing-by-the-numbers not governing-by-emotions. We’ve witnessed enough hastily made uninformed decisions that are flip-flopped and reversed multiple times in the same meeting. We’ve seen special interests pressure voting without accurate projections of the cost consequences.
We want our taxes reduced. The entire county was reassessed in 2008 and overvalued as a period of declining real estate prices gripped our nation. Our misery was further compounded in 2009 by a fifty percent rate increase to build up cash reserves that are being disbursed without prudence.
Give us the details on how the money was spent for projects such as schools, jail and water and sewer systems.
Proposed solutions to our problems should be logically debated in public forums, not in “executive sessions”. Short public comment periods are not informative debates.
We want greater transparency and accessibility to documents and details of how our money is spent. Covering up decisions and facts with a blanket that can only be removed with a Freedom of Information Act request puts a cloud over open government. Our citizens need access to information.
We want governing-by-the-numbers not governing-by-emotions. We’ve witnessed enough hastily made uninformed decisions that are flip-flopped and reversed multiple times in the same meeting. We’ve seen special interests pressure voting without accurate projections of the cost consequences.
We want our taxes reduced. The entire county was reassessed in 2008 and overvalued as a period of declining real estate prices gripped our nation. Our misery was further compounded in 2009 by a fifty percent rate increase to build up cash reserves that are being disbursed without prudence.
Give us the details on how the money was spent for projects such as schools, jail and water and sewer systems.
