Just out of curiosity, I got out my list of proposed taxes for this year
that came from the county. As I suspected, for my midrange house, the total
tax for the LIBRARY BOARD was $46.46. Shoot! At that level, I could raise
it 50% without breaking a sweat. Maybe that's what we need to do. The
library has a wonderful voice response unit. I use it to renew books all
the time. If they could just program it right, they could have people call
in and voluntarily up their tax that goes to libraries. And then maybe they
could spare some or all of their programs! I have IRAs, and I no longer
mail in proxy votes because all of them now are set up to phone in proxy
votes. They give you a unique and secret PIN, you call the number, put in
your account number, put in your PIN, and then press keys to vote your
votes. That way, no one else can vote for you, you can only vote once, and
the expense of postage and processing are saved. I think it is a GREAT idea
for all kinds of things. I know there is a percentage of folks out there
barely making it. But if those of us who are doing better would vote MORE
than 20 percent (or whatever the Pawlenty cut is), that would make up for
those who can't pay a cent more.
But if the Library Board thinks this too imaginative, well, then let them
email me (not here, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I get all the spam) and
tell me where to mail a check for the $23 which would be a 50 percent raise.
Mind I'm not writing them a permanent blank check. This is just to spite
Tim Pawlenty. But its worth it to do that (to me, anyway).
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
Longfellow Community
Minneapolis, MN
A small town, but the capital of this ratiocination.
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