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Nov. 5th, 2007 01:34 pmWhoa, the Kimberly Trip got a mention on Something Positive.
Nov. 5th, 2007
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Nov. 5th, 2007 06:15 pmOk, I'm confused here. Election tomorrow. Measure B. City measure to issue $108 million of bonds to pay for a new library. Nothing unusual there. But then they want to levy a property tax in order to pay back the bond obligation. WTF not just do the tax, and use the proceeds directly? Since that would, you know, not also incur tons of interest? I mean, usually you see the bond alone, because people seem to think they can get something for nothing and issue bond after bond rather than doing the fiscally honest thing and just taxing themselves. But this is a pair of them. (I suppose I should at least be glad that they have provided some answer to the perpetual question of "but where is the money to pay back this bond going to come from?")
I'm supposing there's some legalese reason they can't, and it's not just that whoever drafted this measure is crazy, but it seems stupid. The impartial analysis doesn't say why it's this way, and there was no argument against the measure submitted, so no hints there either.
I'm supposing there's some legalese reason they can't, and it's not just that whoever drafted this measure is crazy, but it seems stupid. The impartial analysis doesn't say why it's this way, and there was no argument against the measure submitted, so no hints there either.
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Nov. 5th, 2007 06:15 pmOk, I'm confused here. Election tomorrow. Measure B. City measure to issue $108 million of bonds to pay for a new library. Nothing unusual there. But then they want to levy a property tax in order to pay back the bond obligation. WTF not just do the tax, and use the proceeds directly? Since that would, you know, not also incur tons of interest? I mean, usually you see the bond alone, because people seem to think they can get something for nothing and issue bond after bond rather than doing the fiscally honest thing and just taxing themselves. But this is a pair of them. (I suppose I should at least be glad that they have provided some answer to the perpetual question of "but where is the money to pay back this bond going to come from?")
I'm supposing there's some legalese reason they can't, and it's not just that whoever drafted this measure is crazy, but it seems stupid. The impartial analysis doesn't say why it's this way, and there was no argument against the measure submitted, so no hints there either.
I'm supposing there's some legalese reason they can't, and it's not just that whoever drafted this measure is crazy, but it seems stupid. The impartial analysis doesn't say why it's this way, and there was no argument against the measure submitted, so no hints there either.
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Nov. 5th, 2007 06:17 pmif only thou submittest
to the power of the spirit
it will lay its mark upon thee
and give thee gifts untold,
the like thou never dream'st of
but having then received them
this secret truth to thee
will certain be revealed:
such other gifts shall pale
before that mark's soft glory
and the fact of it alone
shall become enough for thee.
I know what I'm talking about. Whatever you're thinking of, it stands a very good chance of being ... well, not wrong; this is poetry. But not the same thing.
to the power of the spirit
it will lay its mark upon thee
and give thee gifts untold,
the like thou never dream'st of
but having then received them
this secret truth to thee
will certain be revealed:
such other gifts shall pale
before that mark's soft glory
and the fact of it alone
shall become enough for thee.
I know what I'm talking about. Whatever you're thinking of, it stands a very good chance of being ... well, not wrong; this is poetry. But not the same thing.
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Nov. 5th, 2007 06:17 pmif only thou submittest
to the power of the spirit
it will lay its mark upon thee
and give thee gifts untold,
the like thou never dream'st of
but having then received them
this secret truth to thee
will certain be revealed:
such other gifts shall pale
before that mark's soft glory
and the fact of it alone
shall become enough for thee.
I know what I'm talking about. Whatever you're thinking of, it stands a very good chance of being ... well, not wrong; this is poetry. But not the same thing.
to the power of the spirit
it will lay its mark upon thee
and give thee gifts untold,
the like thou never dream'st of
but having then received them
this secret truth to thee
will certain be revealed:
such other gifts shall pale
before that mark's soft glory
and the fact of it alone
shall become enough for thee.
I know what I'm talking about. Whatever you're thinking of, it stands a very good chance of being ... well, not wrong; this is poetry. But not the same thing.