Public Money; Your Money
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I stopped to ponder the recent referendum question and it really made me stop and think, think very hard. Everyday I wake up, fight the traffic, arrive at work, sacrifice hours on top of hours away from the family, just so that I can bring the hard-earned bacon home. That bacon ends up in my wallet and the wife’s purse so that we can buy the needs of the household.
But then I went to vote and read the referendum question: The question approved by the
council reads:
“Should the City of Hudson, Village of North Hudson, and the Towns of Hudson and St. Joseph use public funds to jointly pay for acquiring, developing and operating a new joint library building to be located at 700 First Street, Hudson, WI”.
Here lies the problem. Think about it for a moment. What they are doing is by a vote, a badge, and threats of force, jail, and confiscation, asking all of these people if they can use the bacon in your wallet to pay for this “stuff”. Last I knew, that was called taxes. But now it is “Public Money”. Every piece of bacon in your wallet or purse is “Public Money”.
How did this happen? How did my earnings become “Public Money”? Do you really think that the people that voted Yes on the question understood that this was a tax? Maybe they thought there was already a fund with money in it? Do you think the term “Public Money” was carefully chosen as to confuse the electorate? It’s time we go back to calling it what it is. It is a tax that the government, by force, draws out of your wallet and into a socialists’ dream!
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A young student in this fine town showed me in the Pioneer Press an article entitled “Library plan advances to second phase”. I found it online here
A particularly frustrating line in the article reads “officials will conduct a capital campaign feasibility study and probably will hire a fundraising consultant.”
More “public funds” being spent with frivolity. Paine also said “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ” In this case, it is the burden of property owners and not all citizens.
I propose a use tax to be collected for every item checked out. Starting with all those DVDs!
To answer your question, taxmealotmore, the people that voted yes did NOT feel that it was a tax coming out of their pockets. They figured that it was going to come out of SOMEONE ELSE’S pockets.
Remember that liberals think that ALL money is public funds. Those dollars that you spend personally are just money that they haven’t figured out how to steal from you yet.
I think that people realized that building a library out at Vine & Carmichael was such a folly that when they were offered a location that actually makes sense (since it’s in town), they jumped for it. And it saves money, too!
A classic con game. Make someone think that something is going to cost a lot, then offer them a better deal on a different model. They’ll go for the “better deal” every time, even when they didn’t need to buy either one in the first place.
I disagree that the library must be “in town”. It is a Joint Library which means the property-owning taxpayers in several communities foot the bill, not just taxpayers in the City of Hudson.
Certainly less expensive digs could be found elsewhere, unless of course one chooses to pay over-market like the our school board did for the new Admin Building.