Ralph Bristol
March 26, 2012
You
haven’t yet seen the headline in the Tennessean that announces “Dean
asks for property tax hike,” but by the time you do, it will likely be
too late. You need to act now if you want to help stop Mayor Karl Dean’s stealth tax increase.
What
Mayor Dean appears to have done [I think they teach this in public
administration 101] is borrow and spend a billion dollars on a new
convention center and other legacy projects, while simultaneously
squeezing infrastructure budgets to the point where residents are
starting to complain about the neglect – particularly in streets. He
then makes the case that the only way to pay other essential bills AND
fix the streets is to increase taxes. He creates a visible, aggravating,
need for more spending on county infrastructure.
Step
two – Dean goes to council members one by one, metaphorically sits them
on his lap and asks them what projects he can buy for their districts –
if they vote for his tax increase. read more
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