Saturday, October 13, 2007
Local taxes
I live in a fairly small (~65,000) halfway upstate city in New York State where the current mayor was defeated in the recent primary election. This morning, what to our wondering eyes should appear on the local newspaper's front page but a blaring headline announcing that said defeated incumbent is urging a property tax raise of slightly less than 9%, to be effectuated before the death knell stops knelling for the regime and the term actually comes to an end. Given the timing, one assumes the motivation is either red-angry fury or simple vengeance, neither of which are reasoned or good for anything except the city's coffers. In any case, I heard a voice in my head saying "anyone wonder why she lost the primary?!" You know, I must say that I'm beginning to think politicians really are the relatively scummy entities some people (whom heretofore I thought were mostly raving lunatics) have been saying. I hate to think so, but it's hard to avoid or resist.
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