re: #86 reine.de.tout

Many governmental jurisdictions operate on a shoestring; this is absolutely true, and people who don’t believe it are fooling themselves. There is a bit of waste; but it’s small potatoes, really, compared to an overall budget.

Jurisdictions are perfectly able to make budget cuts, but of course, that results in LESS SERVICE and that always makes people really mad, much easier to complain about the need for budget cuts, without really sucking it up and doing without government services people have grown accustomed to.

The proposed tax Cato is talking about seems to me to be very easy to avoid, if a person doesn’t like it - drink your own water from your own tap, and don’t buy the bottled stuff.

The people of Baltimore, like people everywhere in this country, want every imaginable service, but don’t want to pay for it.

“Don’t tax him
Don’t tax me.
Tax the man
Behind that tree!”