The Ohio Chamber of Commerce has released a report on how Ohio can start digging it's way out of it's budget mess.
One item I disagree with is the suggestion of the elimination of the real estate rollback. This was implemented in the early 70's to help "sell" the income tax. (never trust your government).
(The Chamber is playing a Chameleon again. Depending on the subject............they either say we are massively overtaxed (which I agree with) or now, we are "giving money to taxpayers", propaganda Lenin would be proud of)
Now the Chamber thinks it's a costly entitlement given to tax payers! This sounds just like a press release from the obama administration.
They also float the idea of "means testing" the real estate rollback based on the value of the property. Again, never trust your government. They know that over time inflation will make whatever number they come up with meaningless.
Previous posts on not trusting what the government says when they try to sell a new tax: here and here
The part of the report I do agree with is consolidation of local governments. They talk all around the idea but they get there. I wish they'd be even more bold and suggest the elimination of Townships. It doesn't matter if the cost only equals whatever percentage of the upcoming shortfall. If Townships are wasteful and not needed, they need to go!
Previous posts on eliminating Townships here and here.
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Not too keen on consolidation of any Guvmints, as I like my Guvmints inffective, confused and powerless.
ReplyDeleteHowever if consolidation does something for the TS and Co. roads in Athens County, then I guess I'm for it.
How come they keep raising my property taxes, but our roads keep getting worse? Would consolidation help that?