This reminds me of the online article I read yesterday in the NY Times (linked from FR) regarding the possibility of the good folks in North Dakota voting to eliminate property taxes. I couldn’t believe the brainwashed comments at the end of the article. They basically said “We cannot eliminate property taxes because then we won’t have basic services like fire, police, schools, etc...”. It didn’t even enter their little pea brains that once you “cut the fat” there are puhlenty of other ways to pay for these services.
It’s like they have been conditioned to the nanny state being the norm and I believe that’s what is so disturbing about the times we live in.
I look at it like so many others have posited whereas we are on a huge ship and it is going to take some time to get it to turn around.
Our taxes are being raised 10% (legally 10% but with fuzzy math and rounding up it’s a bit more which calculates into way more over the course of time) for the benefit of “others” here. We used to fund our VFW with bake sales and garage sales but they did away with that and went with government grants and taxes which they can’t seem to be able to survive on so are sending out nasty letters demanding a few hundred dollar yearly ransoms if you want them to come out to water down the embers of your home.
There’s a huge percent of illegals so there goes our schools and health facilities. Then we got in a bunch of Katrina “victims” who are building their own compound with free land that falls under church exempt status. Excuse me but just how can they justify a couple dozen brand new houses as the tax free church parsonage? Then there’s the city sprawl that’s eased itself out here. Along with the sprawl comes the libs and other general wackos with all their restrictions and regulations and stooopid ideas. At one time I could count the cars I passed on the way to town on one hand. Today, there’s traffic. While there are still pockets of boonies out there, they are getting few and far between.