Dear Editor,
The prevailing predominant religion has advised its faithful to: get out of debt and stay out of debt. Why shouldn’t that apply to city government?
It has been suggested by one Utopia fiber user that implementation of this redistribution of wealth scheme – from public debt to private debt is like the “old dirty roads being paved.” The folks who brought it in get off Scott free. No it is Not! The asphalt highways are constructed and maintained by Federal, State or Local taxes on gas or diesel by those who buy fuel and then drive on them – this way of funding is fair, honest and allows freedom of choice – not compulsory enforcement and fees to non-motorists. (And by the way, all of you bicyclists who ride on the roads and highways maybe ought to pay a tax for your public road usage as you endanger yourselves near motor vehicle traffic and annoy all of us fuel-purchase-gas tax-weary motorists. Often times these fuel taxes don’t even go to the roads, politicians divert them into other funds. Politicians love blank checks from us. They learned this misuse of taxpayer bucks from government staff and elected politicians who raped the Social Security funds over the decades.
Utopia and Macquaire bank “Bail-out” by Wasatch front cities is just another tax and 30 years of financial enslavement. This ridiculous idea is likened under the bankrupt policies of “Robbing Peter to pay Paul” and Peter cannot afford it. One local realtor loves it, thinking all residents will subsidize Utopia so his homes will sell quicker and for more money.
It is outrageous and stupid for local city officials/employees to pay for information to have the Australian investment bank and lopsided committees receive $15,000 and then $50,000 for “Milestones.” Milestone one and two are simply indicative of more “good money after bad.” By the time we decide that this is not the road to travel, we will be a billion dollars in and the “milestone” will be a millstone around the neck of the resident who pays the utility bill.
City Staffers don’t care, its “O.P.M.” other people’s money, taxpayer dough. All these “tail-wagging the dog” public bureaucrats know how to do is tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, elect, elect and seek out more federal grants – with strings attached to your detriment.
The nature of government –even at the city level – is to grow- more money, more employees, more regulations, more red tape, planning and zoning until individual liberty and freedoms are stripped away little by little until there are only collectivist statist policies, certainly no property rights and no individual property (money) rights will survive.
Don Dunbar
