CITY: Speak up on Sept. 4
It has been increasingly difficult for the hard working tax-paying families (for those of us who have a job), of this community to watch the city’s budget process take shape, when it is laced with increases, and additional spending. Wait for it……AHHHH there it is, along with a heaping helping of property tax increases, 3 percent nonetheless, the most allowed by law!
This right smack-dab in the middle of the deepest recession that my grandparents, parents and I have ever seen! No spending cuts, no salary freezes, just more taxes and more spending! “These people can’t be serious!” The only sensible voice in this crowd of lunatics is Councilman Adams, who proposed the following at a recent council budget workshop: “He offered to slash his $9,000 compensation for being a councilman in half while taking on his own family health insurance as a sign that everyone must do their part.”
Councilman Kennedy called the proposal “good theater,” I call it a good start!
Folks, I don’t know about you, but this is the type of juvenile idiocy that we do not need on the council. Rhetoric and personal attacks between council members stifles critical dialogue! From Councilman Adams, we get proposed solutions in cutting our spending. From Councilman Kennedy we get personal attacks, debt, deficit, demagoguery, division and distortion, because they have no solutions in cutting our spending! In fact, they are proposing to “double-down” by spending millions and millions of YOUR tax dollars to make a park into a park! It defies common sense, as these “egg-heads” won’t be happy until they spend us into bankruptcy! Councilman Kennedy and his cronies are “card carrying members of the un-reality based community.”
At the Sept. 4 council meeting, they will be voting on property tax increases, and I encourage the community that stands for responsible government to attend. I will close with a quote from Ronald Reagan: “It’s not that the people are taxed too little, we have a government that spends too much.”
JOHN A. DIXON II
Coeur d’Alene