It seems that congress is considering eliminating the personal income tax deductions for state and local taxes.
That would cause citizen involvement to lower local taxes.
Maybe that is a good idea.
We deserve better
Brutus
Putting the squeeze on local governments
November 16, 2017
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Grading our politicians
November 15, 2017The earlier post about the kindergarten report card got us to look into what else our elected officials might learn at EPISD.
According to the pre-kindergarten report card the school district measures these things:
Maybe we should change the age limit on these elected positions. A pre-k child that gets a “P” for proficient on these things might be a better candidate than what we have.
We deserve better
Brutus
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They could learn it in kindergarten
November 8, 2017This little snippet is part of the EPISD kindergarten report card:
Could we get our elected officials to attend that class?
We deserve better
Brutus
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County bridge useless
October 25, 2017According to this article in the Times past county commissioners have gifted us with another disaster.
From the article:
Construction of the Tornillo port of entry cost at least $133 million. More than $91 million of that amount was paid by the U.S. General Services Administration and Customs and Border Protection.
El Paso County covered remaining costs…
That puts our portion of the bill at $42 million if our math is correct.
Bridge to nowhere
Again, from the Times article:
“CBP” has suspended commercial processing at the Tornillo crossing.
and later:
But Maier said since the opening of the cargo facility in early 2016, CBP processed only five formal commercial entries — shipments with a value in excess of $2,500.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Soccer madness
October 24, 2017We learned the other day that an effort is being started to get city and/or county money (that’s really our money, just for the record) to build a stadium to host a professional soccer team.
Our former county judge said that maybe that should be a county project.
Does that mean that they will tear down the county courthouse and the downtown jail to make room for the soccer field? An article in the Times told us that the soccer league wants the facility to be located downtown.
That is just baloney.
What the soccer league wants is for the team to draw heavy attendance and thus be profitable. The location of the soccer field is irrelevant if people will go to it.
The requirement that it be downtown is just another part of the whole downtown re-development effort.
We need to speak up unless we want the politicians to put us further in debt.
We deserve better
Brutus
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