A refrain you’ll hear from local government elected officials is: “No one likes paying taxes, I don’t like paying taxes but…” Then you get a defense of their near perennial decision to raise local taxes; often raising such to spend more than any increase in inflation or population growth.
Let us blow-up the premise many use to attempt to make it appear that they are taking action that hurts them. If I’ve heard this “No one likes paying taxes, we have to pay property taxes too,” line a dozen times, I’ve heard it hundreds.
Actually, there are tons of people who don’t mind paying more taxes.
Many of these folk, often through a spouse, are enjoying a benefit from the tax increase greater than the cost of such. They may enjoy a “cost-of-living” pay raise greater than the cost in higher taxes or they may keep lower costs for health insurance or have greater contributions to retirement or other benefit plans.
Actually, there are tons of people who don’t mind paying more taxes. If, for example, a school property tax increase of $200 on a teacher’s family results in a $2000 annual raise, who would oppose that?
We simply have too many people dining at the taxpayer trough as opposed to doing the creative private sector work that creates the funds used to pay for the public sector.
We simply have too many people dining at the taxpayer trough…
Often local officials, from school board to city council members, personally benefit from spending growth. It is not always a direct payroll interest but often business relationships sure to grow when new facilities are built and other capital spending is approved.
Why do you think grocery stores are the biggest lobbyists for food stamp welfare and fight most every effort to tighten how such is spent?
Too many local elected officials benefit from tax and spending increases
Let us blow-up the premise many use to attempt to make it appear that they are taking action that hurts them. If I’ve heard this “No one likes paying taxes, we have to pay property taxes too,” line a dozen times, I’ve heard it hundreds.
Actually, there are tons of people who don’t mind paying more taxes.
Many of these folk, often through a spouse, are enjoying a benefit from the tax increase greater than the cost of such. They may enjoy a “cost-of-living” pay raise greater than the cost in higher taxes or they may keep lower costs for health insurance or have greater contributions to retirement or other benefit plans.
Actually, there are tons of people who don’t mind paying more taxes. If, for example, a school property tax increase of $200 on a teacher’s family results in a $2000 annual raise, who would oppose that?
We simply have too many people dining at the taxpayer trough as opposed to doing the creative private sector work that creates the funds used to pay for the public sector.
We simply have too many people dining at the taxpayer trough…
Often local officials, from school board to city council members, personally benefit from spending growth. It is not always a direct payroll interest but often business relationships sure to grow when new facilities are built and other capital spending is approved.
Why do you think grocery stores are the biggest lobbyists for food stamp welfare and fight most every effort to tighten how such is spent?