The Beat Goes On (Does It Ever Stop?)
May 28th, 2010 | by BGuzzardi |
Lower Merion Majority LMBOC chooses the past over the future.
iPads, Kindles, NOOKs, Sony Readers – the future of information delivery is Internet Online, not bricks and mortar and here in “Slower Merion” we are mired in the past. Conservatives look to the past to solve the problems of the future without betraying eternal core values, not mindlessly repeat the past solutions, that is definition of insanity and Lower Merion’s Majority Commissioners $24 Million for Bricks and Mortar is not wise or virtuous use of citizen’s money.
Bigger Government; Smaller Citizens
Jenny Brown has stalwartly and consistently led the opposition on behalf of The Forgotten Taxpayer. Unfortunately, Republicans Phil Rosenzweig and Scott Zelov voted for the Ludington Project setting a precedent for ever more Taj Mahal spending. Borrowing in Lower Merion is set to rise from $100,000,000 to $125,000,000. Bond borrowing doubled from 2002 to 2009 and now is set to increase 25% more.
The Taj Mahal Library renovation project is projected to cost $24,000,000. There his is not a deferred maintenance project. By its terms, it is a complete renovation. $24,000,000 dollars and not one new book or computer is bought. There is no evidence that any user will use the library more or that one more person will use the library.
If there were a referendum, would it pass? Not likely. Many may choose to spend money at Borders, or buy a Kindle or other electronic reader, or read online rather than paper or listen on disc in the car. So many less expensive ways to read and the LMBOC majority decides what is in the public interest. It might be best to let the public decide what is in its interest.
Coercing some members of the community to pay for what others want and won’t pay for tears the community and sets one citizen against the other. Cooperation, not coercion, build a community. Convince, rather than coerce, citizens to donate rather than coercing The Forgotten Taxpayer, siphoning resources from job creating small businesses, or hammering the homeowner.
Taxation forces individual citizens to act according to plans of the government rather than according to their own plans. The individual citizen now has less freedom.