The Morrisville Borough Council wants you to decide to raise your own taxes. The November ballot will have a referendum where the people of Morrisville can approve a millage increase for the rescue squad.
The ambulance company is a great place to spend your money wisely and effectively. Staffed by dedicated volunteers, these people are literally life savers. This is a no-brainer decision.
I just wonder why this is a potentially "OK" tax rise. Is it because it's only a few mils and it's only $30 bucks a house? Is it because "everyone" needs the rescue squad and not just the "children"? Or is it something else?
Why wasn't the council able to find a revenue neutral way to provide the same funding? It leaves open the question of why the council members who voted against Gateway (read: new tax revenues) now want to tax you more. I'm all for funding the rescue squad at a higher level. Now cut at least the same amount out of the overall budget and make it a neutral impact to the taxpayer. According to the quote provided by the BCCT, it looks like one council member wants to pile the increase on top of what we already pay.
Here's the catch: You're taxing yourself and the paid council members evade the responsibility of accurately managing the budget. Imagine this line in the BCCT next year: "'I didn't raise your taxes,' said council member X, "you voted it in. It's your responsibility that your tax bill is higher.'"
If only...IF ONLY!...there was someone on the borough council who was aggressive in ferreting out corruption and malfeasance and could spot slackers wasting the taxpayer's dime. Where could we find someone like that?
Morrisville residents to vote on EMS fund
Voters in Morrisville will have their say on a millage increase to bulk up the EMS fund to support the Morrisville Ambulance Squad.
A resolution to place a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot passed unanimously at Monday night’s council meeting. The referendum will ask voters whether they want the borough to increase the EMS fund to 2 mills, which is 1.5 mills more than permitted by the borough code without being approved through a successful referendum, solicitor James Downey said.
Councilman Stephen Worob noted that the millage increase translates to about $30 per household. The borough solicitor will submit the referendum to Bucks officials. If approved, it will appear on the November ballot.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Can't they set up a 501(c)(3) corporation and solicit funds through that, and exhaust any and all other forms of funding, both real and imagined, before they ever seek taxpayer dollars?
I mean, just like France, it seems that they're always there when they need you, with open palms!
I want a referendum abolishing payments to councilmembers. Perhaps this would be sufficient to offset the required millage hike. (I know it wouldn't, but it's a step in the right direction.) Meanwhile our erstwhile resident anonymous councilperson never answered the questions posed to him. Perhaps this is evidence of something to hide, no?
The silence from councilman anonymous speaks louder than the shame on you screaming ever did.
You're putting me in the awfully awkward position of defending the guy, but in an earlier posting, didn't he (or at least an anonymous person who writes a lot like him) say it was for new equipment and police?
I don't totally believe that, because I'd expect to be seeing a lot more new equipment and police than I'm seeing. Why, in today's Phila. Inquirer, there's an article about Camden's police chief resigning. It says Camden, a city of 79,000, has a 500 member police force. If Morrisville (pop. 10,000) had a police force proportional to Camden's, we'd have 63.29 (I feel sorry for the 0.29 - it must make it hard to get paperwork done). Now that's a police force, one I could see consuming some major tax mils.
I urge those of you who have been rebuffed, ignored, intimidated, and otherwise made to feel like a stranger in your own town to vote NO for the tax increase.
1) As the blogger states, it is a dodge by the current board. Force their hand, make them raise taxes.
2) As a satirical entry this week queried, "why should I pay for that"...make no mistake; the radical anti-tax crew that runs the school board is not made up of the young and virile. It's a generational conflict. They got theirs, so screw you...guess what? We can screw you back...since I can't vote not to give them my Social Security deductions that I'm not going to see, I can vote not to support their trips to the ER.
I'm not using it.
Shame on you screaming? I don't know to what that refers, but OK, whatever....
Jon, the answers provided by Anonymous CP talked about expenditures, not about the disproportionate municipal millage rates, and they didn't address the CP pay. Unless you count the self-serving answer about this anonymous CP paying $120K for us. An answer I found patently insulting.
I guess we'll all just have to wait for the book. Maybe it'll be made into a movie, and Jon Lovitz can play a high public official. That might just garner some attention. Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket.
Yeah, that's the ticket, anonymous CP should have put his $120k question up for referendum. Something like this:
Ballot Question: Do you authorize anonymous CP to conduct, on your behalf, at a personal cost to anonymous CP not to exceed $120,000, a multi-year campaign of unfounded allegations of corruption, smeared with greasy layers of character assassinations, directed towards Morrisville School Superintendent Dr. John Gould which, even if investigated at various levels of government, turns up nothing substantial and, if pursued by the aforementioned Dr. Gould, could result in the loss by anonymous CP of a "slander per se" suit, especially if the aforementioned anonymous CP acts as his own legal defense counsel for the aforementioned lawsuit?
John, shouldn't the amount be equal to not more than one Gould? Thanks for the laughs, funnyman.
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