The High Cost of Repairs

My commute was impacted rather severely by the innocent yen for a sausage sandwich that was experienced by a PennDOT engineer, yet the Inquirer today talks about an even larger bill to repair and maintain the 50-year old U.S. Interstate Highway System.

Sounds like the Morrisville school system, except that thousands of commuters do not use the school here, just a few kids that we can safely farm out. Who cares what those kids and their parents think: Just lower my taxes!

For the people who voted in the Stop the School candidates, let's re-ask the question I've been posing: What's Next?? It's pretty clear that you voted to lower your taxes. Have they dropped yet? Well, fast on the heels of the $2.4 million dollar squander to give back the bond money, it's nearly time for the Emperor's budget to be unveiled.

The budget and your taxes will be a bit lower, I'm sure. But how much? And what will we have to show for it? The $4.5 million dollar open-air sports complex pretty much looks like it used to, except that the grass grows a little faster due to the dumping of post-board meeting waste in the fields. Expect for the grass to be REALLY green around the time the budget comes out.

Just imagine...you're still paying the same taxes, but if the school had been allowed to be built, it would be just about half completed. For all the distress about the high taxes and how the school would bankrupt us, I guess you were right. We still have the high taxes, and the cost of the school that never was is bankrupting us.