"I totally agree that straightening out the ridiculous tax assessment situation will not happen in time to help the libraries. That's key. While budget and tax issues are important, these closures must be seen as a completely different matter. Like weapons of mass destruction, freedom and democracy are real issues, those had nothing to do with invading Iraq. The use of those "crisis" issues was meant to obfuscate the real purpose, like the budget gave Nutter an opening to make this move on closure of the people's public assets. To answer your confusion, he is up to something more than balancing the budget. But one tax scheme that seems like a no-brainer to consider now, even though to Nutter, it is inviolate and can't be mentioned or considered- The ponzi scheme called the ten year tax abatement. (Please don't tell Paul Levy I mentioned these or he will get hopping mad!) Most well informed people recognized that a building shift was occuring in metro regions around the country when this was passed. As the land for exoburban development ran out and the reality of oil set in, the devlopers knew they wanted to come back to the central cities which were being promoted. This unbelievably unfair tax welfare would not hurt those on lower incomes if it was ended. This is the most ridiculous unfair property tax policy we have and Nutter won't consider it! The tax abatement was totally unnecessary. It was intended to give windfall profits to developers, who inflated the prices of condos and took 10 years of tax revenue for themselves. We were told that riches would trickle down to the city, if we just trusted the scheme. (Instead we got an artificial housing bubble and a budget which depends on heavy taxes for the working and poor to subsidize that welfare for rich developers.) But Nutter won't even consider ending these windfall profits while he tries to fool us. Any news on the outcome of today's legal maneuvering to destroy the libraries? Glenn You can fool some people some time, but you can't fool all the people all the time, Bob Marley
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- Re: [UC] Taxation and the libraries Glenn moyer
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- RE: [UC] Taxation and the libraries KAREN ALLEN
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- Re: [UC] Taxation and the libraries Dave Axler
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- Re: [UC] Taxation and the libraries Glenn moyer
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- RE: [UC] Taxation and the libraries KAREN ALLEN
- Re: [UC] Taxation and the libraries MLamond