- Property taxes would be based on square footage, not how many bells and whistles you have
- Tax dollars would actually get spent only on the items they were created for
- Tax dollars wouldn't leave the state so the U.S. Department of Agriculture could *award* money to South Carolina in the form of a *competitive grant*
- Talk of bringing a bankrupt passenger rail service *company* to Iowa City and the false promises being made in support of it wouldn't happen
- Legislators would be thinking of ways to keep money IN the pockets and bank accounts of Iowans, not how to take money OUT.
- Public safety would be the LAST thing to be cut during lean economic times, not the first.
- County officials wouldn't buy land in the name of green space or build unneeded human services facilities with skywalks, while completely ignoring roads and the need for a new jail.
- A gold plated Joint Emergency Communications Center that is mismanaged wouldn't get built when all that was really needed was for communities/agencies to have the same kind of communications system
- Expensive developments wouldn't get built in flood plains
- City officials wouldn't be spending all kinds of taxpayer money on flood mitigation, to 'protect' those expensive developments built in a flood plain
- City officials wouldn't be able to railroad residents into developing 'city owned' hotels and 'city owned' theatres, and then raise taxes even more to subsidize them.
- City officials wouldn't blatantly ignore their residents, who don't like shady land deals made for $1
- City officials wouldn't look for ways to manipulate Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
Your vote doesn't matter huh? Yes, it matters who gets put into office. Look at the games we let politicians play. If more reasoned and common sense based people were put in office, none of the above wrongdoing would exist and you would be much better able to provide for your family.
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