When is enough, enough?

When I opened my emails this morning, what did I find that almost blew me out of my chair? A list of new, increased sales tax rates, averaging a bit more than an additional, full 1%, bringing the rate to over 10% in many districts!

I’m wondering what these voters were promised in the run-up to the election? First and foremost is anything that can be charged as being “for the children,” of course. The county officials (or other silver tongue devils) that sold these tax increases to the suckers that will now have to dig even deeper into the family treasury to pony up ever more and more and on and on.

For those of you that didn’t do the math or simply don’t care, you’re loading more and more debt for “the children” to shell out in the years to come.

What do we tax paying slaves receive in turn for this tax largesse our “respected officials” have control over, like it or lump it? Start with outrageous pay in excess of any monthly salaries in the private sector for a comparable job description, plus handsome benefits including princely retirement largesse of course! The list of outrages would be much too long for submitting to this, or most main stream media news.

Please, please, folks! When the big bad wolf is at your door with tales of “golden benefits,” remember who is first and foremost of the recipients in line when the “benny’s” are doled out.

Luckily, San Diego County voters weren’t included in the “sucker parade” this go-around, but as sure as you were born, the vampires will be back, again and again…

Thomas G Johnson