Chief
09-06-2007, 11:00 AM
September 6th, 2007
“AREA HOME CONSTRUCTION PLUMMETS”. With the Columbian’s report that area home construction activity in Vancouver and Clark County has fallen to its lowest level since August 1980,
Following that announcement, I can picture our “current tax and spend” politicians gathered around the proverbial back room table wringing their hands trying to figure out how they are going to pay the bills they incurred on their wild spending spree.
With revenues from sales taxes, property taxes, and building permits decreasing, it would probably be nice to have:
1. the squandered Rainy Fund,
2. the 73 millions of dollars foolishly spent on Building with tax dollars a Hotel,
3. Light Rail and New I-5 Bridge Studies,
4. a Bridge to Nowhere,
5. Legal Kickbacks (AKA developer tax incentives),
6. Financial Failing Parking Garages,
7. Relocating a perfectly good library,
8. the revenues lost by giving away CITY OWNED PROPERTY or,
9. selling 3,000,000 dollars publicly owned property for 200,000 dollars.
Anyone care to bet that as soon as the dust settles, but probably not before the November elections, we will see new plans being developed that will allow the tax and spend crowd at all levels of government to dig deeper into our pockets.
We may not be able to stop them from wasting our tax dollars but in November, we have the opportunity to slow them down by voting for;
STEMPER, CAMPBELL and OLIVER
Our taxes are already TOO DAMN HIGH. And it is TIME FOR A CHANGE!!! We need to take away their credit cards.
Larry Patella
CDR USN (ret)
P.S. This morning during my daily walk, I noticed that Stemper and Oliver campaign signs were either missing or uprooted. Incumbent signs remained in place.
“AREA HOME CONSTRUCTION PLUMMETS”. With the Columbian’s report that area home construction activity in Vancouver and Clark County has fallen to its lowest level since August 1980,
Following that announcement, I can picture our “current tax and spend” politicians gathered around the proverbial back room table wringing their hands trying to figure out how they are going to pay the bills they incurred on their wild spending spree.
With revenues from sales taxes, property taxes, and building permits decreasing, it would probably be nice to have:
1. the squandered Rainy Fund,
2. the 73 millions of dollars foolishly spent on Building with tax dollars a Hotel,
3. Light Rail and New I-5 Bridge Studies,
4. a Bridge to Nowhere,
5. Legal Kickbacks (AKA developer tax incentives),
6. Financial Failing Parking Garages,
7. Relocating a perfectly good library,
8. the revenues lost by giving away CITY OWNED PROPERTY or,
9. selling 3,000,000 dollars publicly owned property for 200,000 dollars.
Anyone care to bet that as soon as the dust settles, but probably not before the November elections, we will see new plans being developed that will allow the tax and spend crowd at all levels of government to dig deeper into our pockets.
We may not be able to stop them from wasting our tax dollars but in November, we have the opportunity to slow them down by voting for;
STEMPER, CAMPBELL and OLIVER
Our taxes are already TOO DAMN HIGH. And it is TIME FOR A CHANGE!!! We need to take away their credit cards.
Larry Patella
CDR USN (ret)
P.S. This morning during my daily walk, I noticed that Stemper and Oliver campaign signs were either missing or uprooted. Incumbent signs remained in place.