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You mean libraries that are not near as used or necessary as they used to be?
Hopefully the OP moved from Kentucky to Illinois where he can fully enjoy higher property taxes seeing as how in 2010 the Median Real Estate Taxes Paid (Cook County) $4,015 compared to the Median Real Estate Taxes Paid (Jefferson County) of $1,353.
But we must ask ourselves how can any family afford books on a $2,600 annual budget?
As an independent conservative, I lost my use and respect for the Tea Party a long time ago. Stories like this reiterate for me that the movement has been hijacked by morons.
As an independent conservative, I lost my use and respect for the Tea Party a long time ago. Stories like this reiterate for me that the movement has been hijacked by morons.
This is "fiscal conservatism is our premise" gone too far. I'm also glad I don't live in Kentucky anymore...
I guess I don't get how objecting to unelected people arbitrarily raising taxes on property owners without the benefit of a law to do so is fiscal conservatism "gone too far."
The plaintiffs are not against libraries or funding libraries. They are against libraries raising property tax with no input from the public and no authority to do so.
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Originally Posted by EclecticEars
A middle finger to the Tea Party in Kentucky by a bipartisan Court of Appeals:
I hope the plaintiffs appeal to the state Supreme Court. I do agree with the Appellate Court that the "legal issues regarding taxing authority is best addressed by the General Assembly, not the courts", so why is the appellate court creating a law and authority that the General Assembly itself did not? The best remedy is to return the issue to the people through their elected officials, not though unelected library boards.
If you are looking to take momonkey's money than I think at least some of "it" should be about him/her.
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