From the New York Times:
Mayor Carlos Alvarez of Miami-Dade County faces a recall after opponents gathered enough signatures to force an election. The drive came after the county raised the property-tax rate to balance its budget. The county commission must call an election in 45 to 90 days, Harvey Ruvin, clerk of courts, said Tuesday. Recalls are also being sought in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Omaha after proposed tax increases.
People are in no mood to pay higher prices for corrupt, incompetent and bloated government. The only way a government can possibly get people to agree to a tax hike is by first demonstrating that real cuts in spending have been made – government is not trusted and so when a government says they can’t cut and must raise revenues to balance the budget, the government is simply presumed to be lying. And that, in 99.9% of the cases, is true…there is a huge amount which can be cut from all local, State and federal budgets without any impact on the day to day lives of Americans.
Naturally, people in government don’t want to face the cuts – after all, if government is cut, it is government people who feel the brunt of such cuts. But the patience of the people has run out – and now the Mayor of Miami will find out just how dumb a tax increase can be.
HAT TIP: Mish’s
