-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 November 2002 07:32, Stephen Jester wrote: > the government. In my opinion, unless voted in by the taxpayers, taxes > should not jump more than the rate of infaltion. To take that much money > out of the private sector is going to kill the economy in the city and > the county. $150 is alot of trips to Tooties!
Your wish is our command. This is why in the last few years the Minneapolis taxpayers voted in not one, but two, property tax increases: one for a library and one for the schools. These were over and above our regularly scheduled corporate welfare program, which is why I voted against them... but apparently Minneapolis schools being so poor is working-- the citizens don't seem to get it. The only reason we need "extra" funding for schools and libraries is that all the "regular" money is being given to developers of inane projects like Block E or being used to pay off debts. 10% of our tax money is currently used for "debt service"-- I assume that's primarily interest payments on bonds (issued for stuff like turning Block E into a mini-Maul-of-America), but I'd happily be corrected on that. What we really need, at all levels of government, is some form of line item taxation, where your rate is set at x%, but each citizen can earmark their contribution for specific areas of government. -michael libby (cleveland neighborhood, north Mpls) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE906ue4ClW9KMwqnMRAn+hAJ91uhdFcoMqCUMS5jw0cIvMmgzKFACdHJPX Fn1yDpVlzShVTMVXFCx9z1I= =giCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
