Can You Hear Me Now?
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- August
- 15
I decided to have a bit of fun today with our local County Legislators. The curious layer of bureaucracy we know as County Government has been in trouble for its lax accounting of – and puzzling attitude toward – the public checkbook. Un-audited Cell phones are merely a symptom of a greater personal spending problem exhibited by some of the legislators and their staff. Some of them genuinely don’t seem to understand that the taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for their personal expenses.
I am not a reflexively anti-tax kind of guy…Money is needed for the greater good if you want to live in what we know as “civilization.” But in the Lower Hudson Valley, many many people pay HUGE sums of money in the form of state and local property/school/income/sales taxes. And many, many people here pay more in property/school taxes than they do in federal income tax.
Times are tough, and people’s tax bills aren’t going down. So they become very sensitive about silly things like legislator’s phone bills.
County legislators should really pay attention as they may find themselves on the wrong end of a growing movement to make their particular branch of government extinct. If that doesn’t make them shudder, perhaps the idea of having to go out and buy their own private cell phones will.
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on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am by Matt Davies.
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