Orange County Commissioner Proposes Tax Hike to Fight Climate Change (only 11.59 years left)

Indy Week ^ | 5/31/19 | SOPHIA WILHELM

[Libloather]

Orange County Commissioner Mark Marcoplos told the INDY Thursday that he’ll ask his colleagues to raises taxes to fund projects aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.

The property tax hike he’s proposing for the county’s 2019–20 budget—which commissioners will vote on June 18—isn’t likely to cause sticker shock: It’s only a quarter-cent increase for every $100 in assessed value, or about $5 a year for a $200,000 property. (Orange County’s current millage rate, 85 cents per $100 of value, is higher than those of Durham and Wake Counties—78 cents and 65 cents, respectively—though that comparison does not include taxes imposed by municipalities.)

**SNIP**

“The reason we need it is because we’re facing a planetary crisis and everyone—every individual, every community, every government—needs to step up at this time and make a real contribution to the situation,” he says. “We’ve got ten or twelve years to make a significant change in our impact on the climate.”

[GOPJ]

(only 11.59 years left)

LOL good one loather...

[laweeks]

So, my calculation (not using Common Core Math) is that the world will come to an end (by Occasional Kotex's reasoning) Thursday, January 2, 2040. (only 11.59 years left)

[Go Gordon]

“The reason we need it is because we’re facing a planetary crisis and everyone—every individual, every community, every government—needs to step up at this time and make a real contribution to the situation,”

What is the money spent on?

[hal ogen]

Parties and nice office furniture.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Take out a 20 year loan. You’ll be dead before you have to pay it off so you come out ahead, shit for brains.

[Libloather]

January 2, 2040.

It's WAY worse than that. The bartender has us all doomed by 2030 unless we give her all of our loot. (You may have carried the one too many times.)

[Thommas]

.. raises taxes to fund projects aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.

And just what county projects will be countering 'climate change?' When will those projects be deemed successful or a failure?

In short, this money will go to pet projects that fill the coffers of big campaign donors. The actual projects will be hidden in budgetary spread sheets and will be subject to zero oversight, just another scam by the Democrat/Socialist Overlords. The working, property owning, serfs will be taking it in the shorts again.

[laweeks]

It's WAY worse than that. The bartender has us all doomed by 2030 unless we give her all of our loot.

Yeah, I was off by a bunch having been dazzled by the intellect of that Bartenderette. Now I'll use Common Core Math, and my new re-calculation is . . . January 2, 2031. Won't be a Super Bowl that year, will there?