Spread the word of this meeting please.
If you're like me, you've heard from your city and county officials that when your home value increases, your property tax has to increase (I've never figured out why, because it doesn't cost any more for a fire truck or police car to drive down one street as compared to another, or one day as compared to another). However, when your property value DROPS, we are told that our taxes STILL have to go up because the city or county has to be able to make their budget.
Well, isn't THAT special.
They don't get to have it BOTH ways. When costs are rising, taking a bigger bite out of our pockets, thus reducing OUR standard of living, shouldn't government also have to reduce THEIRS? If we have to live on less (and that's what rising prices do, cost you more for the same goods and services, reducing your purchasing power, and thus lowering your standard of living), shouldn't government have to live on less, also? After all, "government" (the bureaucracy that we put in place to administer the day-to-day workings of the people's business) is SUPPOSED to be a servant of WE THE PEOPLE, and NOT the other way around. Our Founding Fathers set US up as the sovereigns, and not the government, yet nowadays we have these bureaucrats trying to dictate policy and control OUR lives, instead of US telling government what we will allow it to do.
So, if you feel, as I do, that government in the City of Columbia Heights should have to live within its means when times are tight, just as WE have to, you need to know about the property tax hearing at the City Council meeting on Monday, December 14, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers. After looking at my proposed tax increases for next year, the overwhelming amount of increase is coming from the city portion of my tax bill (almost $100.00). I think it's time to tell the City Council that if WE have to make do with less, so should THEY (remember, if prices are rising, but your income isn't, you're making do with LESS). It would be nice to pack the meeting, and let them know, just as we did with the proposed RIBS ordinance, that we've had enough of out of control "government." It's time the city starts living within OUR means, because we aren't an endless source of revenue to be tapped at will. If we don't, where will it all stop?
Budget and Tax Hearings
Columbia Heights City Council Chambers
590 40th Ave. N.E.
December 14, 2009 - 7:00 p.m.
(discuss city portion
Sincerely,
Gregory K. Sloat
MNGOP
Chair, Precinct 8
HD-50A Delegate
CD-5 Delegate
State Delegate
State Central Committee Delegate
P.S. If you have received this email in error (e.g., you no longer live in Columbia Heights), please accept my apologies. I'm using the most recent list that is available to me.
If you're like me, you've heard from your city and county officials that when your home value increases, your property tax has to increase (I've never figured out why, because it doesn't cost any more for a fire truck or police car to drive down one street as compared to another, or one day as compared to another). However, when your property value DROPS, we are told that our taxes STILL have to go up because the city or county has to be able to make their budget.
Well, isn't THAT special.
They don't get to have it BOTH ways. When costs are rising, taking a bigger bite out of our pockets, thus reducing OUR standard of living, shouldn't government also have to reduce THEIRS? If we have to live on less (and that's what rising prices do, cost you more for the same goods and services, reducing your purchasing power, and thus lowering your standard of living), shouldn't government have to live on less, also? After all, "government" (the bureaucracy that we put in place to administer the day-to-day workings of the people's business) is SUPPOSED to be a servant of WE THE PEOPLE, and NOT the other way around. Our Founding Fathers set US up as the sovereigns, and not the government, yet nowadays we have these bureaucrats trying to dictate policy and control OUR lives, instead of US telling government what we will allow it to do.
So, if you feel, as I do, that government in the City of Columbia Heights should have to live within its means when times are tight, just as WE have to, you need to know about the property tax hearing at the City Council meeting on Monday, December 14, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers. After looking at my proposed tax increases for next year, the overwhelming amount of increase is coming from the city portion of my tax bill (almost $100.00). I think it's time to tell the City Council that if WE have to make do with less, so should THEY (remember, if prices are rising, but your income isn't, you're making do with LESS). It would be nice to pack the meeting, and let them know, just as we did with the proposed RIBS ordinance, that we've had enough of out of control "government." It's time the city starts living within OUR means, because we aren't an endless source of revenue to be tapped at will. If we don't, where will it all stop?
Budget and Tax Hearings
Columbia Heights City Council Chambers
590 40th Ave. N.E.
December 14, 2009 - 7:00 p.m.
(discuss city portion
Sincerely,
Gregory K. Sloat
MNGOP
Chair, Precinct 8
HD-50A Delegate
CD-5 Delegate
State Delegate
State Central Committee Delegate
P.S. If you have received this email in error (e.g., you no longer live in Columbia Heights), please accept my apologies. I'm using the most recent list that is available to me.
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