It seems that paying taxes to governments does not entitle us to get what we pay for.
The El Paso Times reported that the city of El Paso will pay $1.5 million dollars over 3 years to the feral government. The money is to be used to pay salaries and overtime so that more agents can staff the ports of entry.
According to the article, the goal is to reduce waiting times on the bridges to “15 minutes and no more that 30 minutes”. I have difficulty believing what the Times publishes especially when in the same article they wrote “City officials said last year that 2.6 vehicles crossed El Paso bridges.”
Not the point
The Times’ sloppy publishing is not my point. Rather, why do we have to pay extra here?
Trashy
Similarly, why do downtown property owners have to pay the Downtown Management District to handle “sanitation and security” when the city is supposed to do that for them? Recently the district has been involved in a controversy over a process that would allow them to double the taxes on members over a period of years.
Lucky us
The Texas legislature does not seem to want to pay to fund new roads in El Paso that some think are necessary. Our city council formed the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority whose purpose essentially is to raise money to fund transportation projects. Our money.
Coming soon?
Might we see Neighborhood Investment Tax Watching Interior Transportation (NITWIT) zones soon? These zones could impose an extra tax on individual neighborhoods to fund fixing our local streets.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Yet we seem confused as to why businesses and individuals do not want to relocate to El Paso?
How about we put a special tax on minor league baseball tickets to pay for the all the additional services that the city will be providing on game and event days?
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