I’m sitting here dreaming that Freepers might have that much influence on the current U.S. political system - which I would NOT characterize positively as ‘robust’.
Recently, we had a school election, which had a proposed property tax millage increase of 25%, to build a new high school.
The liberals say "but it only means an increase of $240 a year on the average homeowner. Well that may be true. But, it will increase everything. I.E. Commercial property being appraised much higher than private property would mean less jobs as the small business owners decrease their payrolls to make up for the increased taxes.
I mentioned this to a local scnool board memeber who was about my age (50ish). "But you and I won't have to pay for it." I walked away as further conversation would be fruitless.
Fortunately, their are enough Freepers and sympathizers here that wrote letters to the editor, etc. to denounce this horrendous increase. The proposal was defeated 2to1. :)