Hands on the Car and Spread 'Em
Is the attitude of Oklahoma City with the fifteen propositions on the ballot Tuesday. They are all about increasing the sales tax and incurring dept to pay for things that used to be paid for from our normal taxation, money that has been siphoned away for diversity studies, paying medical and dental costs for the non producers in the city, and bloating the size and expanse of city government.
One of the first things you learn in politics is that raising money requires that you protect your donors from too many pitches for money lest you drain their enthusiasm to donate. The same thing goes for increasing taxes, asking for a massive tax hike or continuation of what was to be a temporary tax hike to pay for down town corporate welfare means the voters will be thinking about the upcoming taxes in the special session as well as the demands from next year and the years after that.
City government stacks the deck by placing the tax increases on a special ballot with lower turnout expected so the special interests will pack the ballot boxes. What they might not have thought about is the citizens watching the Supreme Court spit on the will of the people with the car tax ruling and if the resentment might boil over on a tax increase vote this close to the sham of a ruling.
