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Our city has gotten grant after grant, to get improvements done for cheap or free...

Once again you make my point. Just where the hell did that grant money come from? The money tree? It came from taxpayers. But you get to use it to buy votes and not take the political heat for raising your citizen's taxes.

And that 'free' steel building was paid for by the risk and sweat of a private business. Government didn't create it from thin air.

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YOu have a point on the grants. But those grants are there, for the coming and getting. If we don't get the free grants, they go elsewhere anyway. But I agree with you on this. WE just don't raise city taxes.

And that 'free' steel building was paid for by the risk and sweat of a private business. Government didn't create it from thin air.

Uh, that FREE building was DONATED by private business. Our Admin asked for it and they GAVE IT. Isn't that free? What am I missing?