The Board members of PUSD were DEFINITELY shady. No doubt I put the majority of the blame on them. NONE of them should ever hold public office again! The point I was making is what you touched upon, ocrenter. That the voters wanted the improvements, they refused to pay for it with higher taxes. But they listened when the PUSD said that they found a way to do it without raising taxes.
Palomar is a monster. I read today where they just laid off a bunch of employees. They still aren’t getting the traffic that they anticipated.
And people like you don’t count for that credit card APR I mentioned. LOL. I’m like you. I never keep a credit card balance and just pay it off each month so my APR is simple. 0% same like you.
But you get the gist of what I was saying…. it’s not pretty…[/quote]
I hear ya. There’s no such thing in life as a free lunch. Of course nobody bothered asking “how” when the free lunch was offered. 🙂
Found the old proposition BB back in 2004 approved by the voters. Looks like they went over-budget by 1/2 a billion… whoopsie, what a silly mistake!
Pretty sad really. The voters get screwed if they vote yes for added property tax. The voters also get screwed if they vote no for added property tax. There is simply no oversight and no accountability for elected officials.[/quote]
Exactly. But then again I think deep down inside people probably knew there was some “catch” but as long as they could ‘kick the can down the road’ to the future taxpayers then they would rather do that then face some tough issues.
It’s not just government leaders that do that. Ordinary everyday citizens (taxpayers) are very guilty of that mentality as well.
Thanks for taking the time to post that BB. It’s an eye opener and just highlights the problems with these projects using taxpayer dollars. They NEVER finish on time and they ALWAYS go way over budget. And ultimately all they have to say is “oops…we need more money” and the taxpayers are on the hook.
That was the big part of getting my Mello Roos taxes pre-paid off. As well, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are too many people starting to pay them off if they ban the pre-payment in the future. The thing with these types of things is you just never know.
A few years from now I wouldn’t be surprised if they quietly stop accepting pre-payments on Mello Roos taxes. And the pay off dates conveniently get extended out further into the future. In such a scenario, the people that have paid them off already will be laughing all the way to the bank.
