Candidate tax payments an issue

At least a couple of Mount Pleasant village officials are having trouble with their property tax payments.  It is interesting that neither of them seems to do much about reducing the Mt. Pleasant tax burden.  High taxes continue to be a problem there.

$4.5 million sought for project

City loan would be put toward Machinery Row.

The taxpayers of Racine are not a bank.

Don't touch personal property tax, say mayors

Expect the mayors to be more concerned about their governmental bodies than the well being of their constituents.  Ridding business of this burden would help bring back prosperity to the private sector.  Right now prosperity is pretty much limited to government.

How to "pay for it?"  How about making government smaller?  How about getting government employee contributions to their pensions and health care in light with the contribution share in the private sector?

Don't "pay for it!"  Just get rid of it.

Union rips 'punitive' deductibles

Labor costs, more specifically, labor benefits costs, are the main force that has been driving up the cost of government for decades.  Until these are dealt with and handled, the cost of government will continue to skyrocket and destroy local government budgets.  Biggest killer has been the pensions.

(I heard the word "health savings account" mentioned in a WRJN newscast.  That would be a marvelous money saver to the Racine Taxpayer and would benefit the government employees also.)

Mount Pleasant considers break with Unified

Mt. Pleasant and Sturtevant should both break with Unified.  Then they must be successful and set a example for Racine of what can be done.

But they must both separate from the idea of the necessity of fancy buildings.  Otherwise the move becomes cost prohibitive.

A lot of children have and are getting a very good basic education at kitchen tables.

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.

"Levy Limits" a hoax

Even the Journal Times reporter caught it.  The obvious hoax played upon us by the Republicans and their so-called "levy limits." 

When I watched the tax increase last year I assumed that the debt would have to decrease by the amount of the increase in tax used to pay off the debt.  How foolish of me to have trusted the governor and his legislature.

The City increased taxes last year by about 1% to pay off some of the debt.  But the debt actually went up by $378,000.00!