You mean City Hall is trying to boondoggle us with the tax increase? Get out!

Mr. Elgersma is the only person who probably follows city government closer than I do, he wrote a great letter about the bait and switch with the recent retail tax increase;

So why did the Sioux Falls city sales tax go up? It was said that it was to fund arterial streets. These streets were in the capital improvement plan budget for five years.

 

So the city made a deal with the developers that the developers pay part of the cost of the arterial streets if the sales tax was raised to pay the rest. But no one said what the money was being raised for since this expense was already budgeted. What did all that money really go for? Did City Hall just want more money to play with without telling us what it really was going to be used for?

Of course they did Roger. I knew from the beginning that the arterial streets were merely an excuse to increase the taxes. Just like flying in a bond consultant, at taxpayer’s expense, was a diversion to try to get us to end the petition drive. Dishonesty and deception rules city hall, something I have known for a very long time.