My reaction to the MUSD override ballot measure

As I was reading the article “Citizens react to MUSD override attempt” I began to wish I never moved to Maricopa.
 
Over the past several years, companies have been reducing their budgets in response to the economic situation.

When I moved to Maricopa a little over a year and a half ago, I was surprised to see how slow industry progressed in the city. Someone told me the city made it so difficult for businesses to open that they usually opted to move to a different city that encouraged and assisted them. In other words, a city that wanted them.
 
Here we have a city council and a school district that harasses the public election after election about how much more money they need to avoid pay cuts and layoffs, giving the notion that it will be us that causes our children to suffer.

Every other business and public agency in every other city in America is cutting pay, cutting staff and reducing expenses. Our property valuations have gone down; in response our tax percentages have gone up to offset it, raising the taxes paid rather than lowering them.

And what is MUSD doing? Moving for another ballot measure. I voted no the last two times, and I will vote no again. Only now, I will also cast my vote to eliminate every individual that currently holds a position and vote in the best candidate, choosing from what’s left.

Furthermore, when the others come up for reelection in the future, they will also lose my vote.
 
The people who vote yes on this initiative are people who have no sense of money, can’t balance their own budget and wouldn’t know it if they did.
 
David Eggleston

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