After millions of dollars on a convention center, walking trails, an extra golf course, non-profit funding and even entertaining the troops from a naval vessel the Wilmington city council has decided that fixing their streets might be important.
The city council decided to raise the tax rate by 3 cents per $100 of value for a five-year capital plan that will raise $41 million. Of that, $35.2 million will go to streets and sidewalks, including $21 million specifically for street rehabilitation. That money will address streets that have languished in poor condition or need repairs.
Simply staggering that the city can justify a tax increase on this as they continue to waste taxpayer time and money on a baseball stadium. Do you think the streets have more importance than a taxpayer funded baseball stadium?
........As you post your comment, please conform to Squall Line's simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. If you wouldn't say it to a co-worker in front of your boss, it probably is not civil and respectful. We will delete any comment that fails this test and issue a warning to the poster. A second offense will result in a ban on commenting on this site. In sum, disagreements, arguments even, are welcome; abusive behavior is not. Thanks.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
24
2012 At 8:30 pm, Bob Smith Said:
Yes. This is one of a few government responsibilities. However, our Political Class presists in meddling in irresponsible “development” projects such as you cite above.
The fundamental question is: Why do citizen taxpayers allow a few government operatives to behave in this foolhardy and self-serving way?