[quote=all]People living in CFD areas are not excused from paying the sales and property taxes. It is more likely that the sales & property taxes collected in my area sponsor your facilities than the other way around.
I’m fine with scaling back the taxes and the services for everyone and then empowering communities to decide if they want their libraries open or closed.[/quote]
craptcha, the sales and property taxes collected in your area (excepting MR) benefit ONLY the residents in your city. If you reside in the county, they benefit ONLY SD County residents who do not live within the jurisdiction of a city. If you regularly shop brick-and-mortar retail in a jurisdiction which you don’t reside, NONE of your sales tax collected from you there benefits your community. It benefits only the city/county in which the retail establishment lies.
I’m also okay with scaling back public library, pool and day camp hours, etc (rec depts). But I’m NOT okay with the direction the state courts are going or cutting back water, sewer and street services. And I think the People’s Ordinance should be abolished and SFR residents of the City of SD should pay for their own trash pickup. I think law enforcement/fire is probably staffed adequately although I don’t know how much in overtime these agencies are still racking up.
I think CA jails and prisons should be scaled back and Joe or Jane Shoplifter (three-striker) should be trying to work to pay off his/her fines and restitution and support his/her kids. I don’t want to support non-violent prison and jail inmates, nor do I want to support their kids. I think the prison industrial complex in CA has seen its heyday in the rear-view mirror, and, collectively, CA voters have much more important issues to ponder going forward than paying into oblivion to keep this huge segment of the population warehoused away in light of the fact of the passage of Prop 26 last November.
