“Yet some people here are complaining about gas in their states being $3.50 or $3.60.”
You’re missing the point. $3.50 is too high. The public has allowed themselves to acceptance and not to question what the politicians have done to them. They then vote them back in to attack another area and watch the political phallus symbols go through a check list of what is important to them and not the people they are supposed protect and defend.
So it’s not the people that are complaining that are not doing their jobs as citizens, it’s the ones that accept their fate and blame other people for their lack of acceptance. The definition of a sheep ready for shearing.
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“You’re missing the point. $3.50 is too high”
Where do you get that idea?
Yet, the citizens do not show up to vote in their local elections that directly effect their real estate taxes.
For example, just this week in my small town in NH we had 755 out of 2096(registered voters) = 36% of the registered voters came out to vote in town elections and budgets/warrant articles.
That 755 is the largest number to EVER vote in those town elections.
1800 people showed up when Trump won in November 2024. That 85% was the highest percentage EVER.
We will have our annual Town Meeting this weekend. This is where you vote on things like buying a new $1 Million Fire Truck or other major bond proposals. I will be surprised if 500 people show up.
So, what happens in these smaller percentage electoral turn outs is the group who is motivated to get their people out can have a major influence on how my town spends tax revenue. All of our tax revenue comes from very high real estate taxes.