07-12-2018, 03:43 AM
"my tax is bigger than your tax thing"
Not the point, I'm sure there are others paying more taxes than us.
The issue is: not getting services, because the revenue is always diverted into "mandatory raises" and "emergency response", with tax increases "needed" to cover the original services -- yet somehow higher taxes doesn't result in actual services, because there's another round of mandatory raises and another unforeseen emergency.
Example: it takes up to a year to get a building permit because County is "so overworked" and suffering from "old slow systems". We are somehow supposed to believe that these problems could easily be fixed if only they had more money, but we've been spending more money and the problems aren't going away.
Apparently "everyone else" is willing to tolerate this, and I shouldn't waste the effort to complain.
Not the point, I'm sure there are others paying more taxes than us.
The issue is: not getting services, because the revenue is always diverted into "mandatory raises" and "emergency response", with tax increases "needed" to cover the original services -- yet somehow higher taxes doesn't result in actual services, because there's another round of mandatory raises and another unforeseen emergency.
Example: it takes up to a year to get a building permit because County is "so overworked" and suffering from "old slow systems". We are somehow supposed to believe that these problems could easily be fixed if only they had more money, but we've been spending more money and the problems aren't going away.
Apparently "everyone else" is willing to tolerate this, and I shouldn't waste the effort to complain.