Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Why Turn off Any Streetlights?

Of course the real cause behind the street light dimming is the inability of the council to raise taxes at will. So as a backlash against this prohibition, the Mayor and his administration cut something that the taxpayers will feel. 
 
Yes they could have cut a high level bureaucrat or two from the payroll and paid for plenty of light for the streets. But then the taxpayers never would have noticed the cut. Life would have gone on with hardly a blink.

That would have been too easy for taxpayers.
 
Thus we have the street light fiasco.

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  1. The time approaches for the 2014 budget to be prepared - and *WHOA* Tom Friedel is already laying blame on all those overpaid and overcompensated Police and Fire Department employees - the exact same employees who Tom and John rushed contracts through prior to Act 10 - then sued to renege on the contract Tom and John had previously approved!

    No word yet on all those gold-plated boat anchors warming seats in Racine City Hall pulling down salaries of $100,000+ and a tax free benefit package in excess of $20,000, $30,000 and even $40,000/ year!

    Take away FORCE (tax) funded government positions at all levels - Federal, State, County, City, and School District - and what would those positions pay in the private sector - EVEN if there was a "demand" for some of them?

    The Dickert Disaster approaches ever faster! Daily operations now depend on an ever increasing amount of debt to be taken on to continue operation! Friends and Family have first dibs on lucrative taxpayer funded contracts! Debt service continues to take a greater chunk of general revenue funds!

    The end of " Business as Usual" is approaching - will it be 2014, 2015 - or (no later than) 2016?

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