Cruel and Unusual Punishment
December 3, 2009 - by
No sooner did unemployment hit double digits than Mayor Meeker and Raleigh’s City Manager and Meeker’s allies on the City Council announced a plan to raise property taxes.
Think of it: Right now almost everyone in Raleigh is paying taxes on overvalued homes and the Mayor and company are setting their sights on raising their taxes 8%, to pay for a $450 million building spree downtown.
It’s been (by a rough guess) a year since Mayor Meeker built anything new downtown and I reckon it would be cruel and unusual punishment to expect Charlie and Russ Stephenson and Tom Crowder to bear the agonies of resisting the temptation to spend another $450 million until the recession is over.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
December 3, 2009/
No sooner did unemployment hit double digits than Mayor Meeker and Raleigh’s City Manager and Meeker’s allies on the City Council announced a plan to raise property taxes.
Think of it: Right now almost everyone in Raleigh is paying taxes on overvalued homes and the Mayor and company are setting their sights on raising their taxes 8%, to pay for a $450 million building spree downtown.
It’s been (by a rough guess) a year since Mayor Meeker built anything new downtown and I reckon it would be cruel and unusual punishment to expect Charlie and Russ Stephenson and Tom Crowder to bear the agonies of resisting the temptation to spend another $450 million until the recession is over.