Ballot Issues
BOND ISSUES -- Vote NO on all of them
The reasons to vote NO on all of the bond issues are simple:
The
politicians load them up with the popular things -- cops, fire/rescue,
libraries, schools, infrastructure (roads, sewers, etc.), etc. This
way, the politicians can put all of their pork-barrel projects, favors
for their friends, jobs for incompetent family members, and social
engineering into the general budget, where it won't be looked at too
much. Bond issues failing on the ballot stops this.
Another reason to vote NO is that more bond issues raise
taxes. Whether we're talking about property taxes, sales taxes, or
anything else, they're going to go up when more bond issues are passed.
This is because a bond issue is a loan to the city from those who buy
the bonds on the market (just like U.S. Savings Bonds). These loans
have to be paid back. So just WHO pays them back? NOT the city
councilors and administrators who floated them in the first place! No,
it's you - those who voted for them (and those who voted NO, as well)!
MILL LEVIES, GROSS RECEIPT TAX HIKES, ETC.
Vote NO on ALL of them
Taxation
doesn't stop being theft and slavery just because 50% plus one of those
who show up on election day support it. Those who want to pay for
public parks, dog-walking areas, libraries and senior centers are
perfectly free to mail in a check to the agencies that build and
maintain them.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Read the proposed amendment VERY carefully
A
few years ago, the Legislature put an amendment on the ballot that
would change the most per diem pay a state legislator is allowed to
collect from 75 bucks a day to "the maximum allowed under IRS rules."
While people thought they were giving the legislators a much-deserved
pay cut, the maximum allowed under the new rules is 128 bucks.