Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Welcome to Dayton's Alternate New!
Welcome to Dayton’s Alternate News!
Dayton’s Alternate News was created as a result of the failed Dayton School Levy and the pending Montgomery County Human Services Levy. It is and was appalling to see how myopically the local media covered these two levies. Both levies are and were given a great deal of support by the local media. Voices against both levies are and were not heard. For this reason, I wish to create a local forum that all voices may be heard.
I would also encourage everyone to be come involved in local politics and government. There is a great deal of apathy out there. So many important decisions that affect many are being made by a few, powerful, local people.
This is an open forum. I encourage all of you to contribute. Please try to convey your message in a polite manner and always use the Golden Rule.
Warm Regards,
Liam
Dayton’s Alternate News was created as a result of the failed Dayton School Levy and the pending Montgomery County Human Services Levy. It is and was appalling to see how myopically the local media covered these two levies. Both levies are and were given a great deal of support by the local media. Voices against both levies are and were not heard. For this reason, I wish to create a local forum that all voices may be heard.
I would also encourage everyone to be come involved in local politics and government. There is a great deal of apathy out there. So many important decisions that affect many are being made by a few, powerful, local people.
This is an open forum. I encourage all of you to contribute. Please try to convey your message in a polite manner and always use the Golden Rule.
Warm Regards,
Liam
Montgomery County, Ohio, Health and Human Services Levy – Issue 20
Why is Issue 20 bad?
Empowering the government to take, yet more, of your neighbor’s money and giving it to someone else is immoral. True compassion comes from your heart and your pockets not thy neighbors. If you want to give, there are plenty of organizations which will take your money.
Government is inefficient and wasteful. Passage of Issue 20 would just give government more of your money to waste and grow itself bigger. Private organizations do so much more with less. If its in your heart to give, then please give to private organizations.
This Levy does not exempt the working poor and lower middle class. There are many hard-working, self sufficient people out there, who do not have a lot of money. Issue 20 will take more of their money and potentially push them from a self-sufficient status to one of dependency.
Since Issue 20 is a form of property tax, landlords will pass this burden onto tenants. Again, this will erode the income of the working poor. It will inflate the cost of subsidized housing, thus perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
A levy is a citizen imposed tax increase. Local politicians love Levies. Its a tax increase that they don’t have to take responsibility. Levies enable politicians to take normal operating expenses, such as education and social services, out of the general revenue. Once these items are placed on a separate levy and the levy is passed, the politicians have that much more money to spend. Levies also leave little incentive for government to balance budgets and spend wisely.
A YES vote for Issue 20 is a vote to take money from the working poor. Please think twice before obligating your neighbor to something he may not be able to afford.
Empowering the government to take, yet more, of your neighbor’s money and giving it to someone else is immoral. True compassion comes from your heart and your pockets not thy neighbors. If you want to give, there are plenty of organizations which will take your money.
Government is inefficient and wasteful. Passage of Issue 20 would just give government more of your money to waste and grow itself bigger. Private organizations do so much more with less. If its in your heart to give, then please give to private organizations.
This Levy does not exempt the working poor and lower middle class. There are many hard-working, self sufficient people out there, who do not have a lot of money. Issue 20 will take more of their money and potentially push them from a self-sufficient status to one of dependency.
Since Issue 20 is a form of property tax, landlords will pass this burden onto tenants. Again, this will erode the income of the working poor. It will inflate the cost of subsidized housing, thus perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
A levy is a citizen imposed tax increase. Local politicians love Levies. Its a tax increase that they don’t have to take responsibility. Levies enable politicians to take normal operating expenses, such as education and social services, out of the general revenue. Once these items are placed on a separate levy and the levy is passed, the politicians have that much more money to spend. Levies also leave little incentive for government to balance budgets and spend wisely.
A YES vote for Issue 20 is a vote to take money from the working poor. Please think twice before obligating your neighbor to something he may not be able to afford.
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