SPLOST

[bubbadebubba]

I am voting NO to Splost for the following reasons::

There are too many items listed on the ballot.
Most of these items have nothing to do with Education.
A lot of the items fall under the catagory for general budget.
The School system had a 52% revenue increase in 2006 and with the extra $3.5 million increase in the budget they still spent an extra $4.5 million for year 2006-2007, meaning they spent an extra $8 million above and over the 2005-2006 year.
This is NOT wise financial management.

Only 35-40% of sales taxes come from outside the county.
60-65% of sales taxes come from local residents.

The average from sales taxes for the past 5 years was $2,623,521.
The average for this splost tax for 5 years would HAVE to be $5,400,000. There's no way Union County can average $5.4 million in revenue from sales taxes the next 5 years, which means property owners are responsible for any shortfall in sales taxes.

VOTE NO TO SPLOST!!

[bubbadebubba]

Splost vote coming up next week, Nov 6th.

VOTE NO TO SPLOST

[mac]

Don't worry I will.

[shortcircuit]

Norm made it alot easier for me to vote NO. His bias is really showing through on this one. He is playing detective now, he wants to get personal with whoever put those anti-splost things up in town. He is too ignorant to realize that he attracted more attention to the anti-splost with his so called article. Someone should call him and tell him that they were put up by local democrats.

[mac]

Someone ought to point him out that it causes other taxes to rise also............

[bubbadebubba]

shortcircuit said:

Norm made it alot easier for me to vote NO. His bias is really showing through on this one. He is playing detective now, he wants to get personal with whoever put those anti-splost things up in town. He is too ignorant to realize that he attracted more attention to the anti-splost with his so called article. Someone should call him and tell him that they were put up by local democrats.

Ole Norm just hates that anyone would get information from any source other than the BIASED fishwrapper he puts out. He's nothing but a propaganda machine for the local commisar and the School Board. He's the kind of editor that could have worked for Hitler, Stalin, or any of the other criminals of the past and present. If it was the 1800's he would be tarred and feathered and run out of town.

[bubbadebubba]

shortcircuit said:

Norm made it alot easier for me to vote NO. His bias is really showing through on this one. He is playing detective now, he wants to get personal with whoever put those anti-splost things up in town. He is too ignorant to realize that he attracted more attention to the anti-splost with his so called article. Someone should call him and tell him that they were put up by local democrats.

Also i wouldn't put it past him if he put out that flyer. I don't believe I know anyone that stupid who is against the splost. There are too many good reasons to be against the splost to talk about without resorting to dumb statements. again I will list them.

1-The way the ballot is written, the money can be spent on anything the Schools want to spend it on.

2- There's no way the County can collect $5.4 million a year on that 1 cent tax. The State has already reported that sale tax collection is down statewide.

3-Which leaves property owners footing the bill anyway.

4-This is the only time voters have input on the operation of the School system and need to tell the Board they've had enough of tax increase for a while, since this Board seems NOT to understand the impact increased taxes have had on local residents.

5-The School Board needs to be active in the financial affairs of the School System instead of rubber-stamping everything the Superintendent comes up with.

6-There's nothing on the ballot that would improve Education.

and the list could go on and on.

VOTE NO TO SPLOST.

[AskTheWiseOldMan]

No banks huh? Which non-bank will be underwriting the bond then?

[bubbadebubba]

askthewiseoldman said:

No banks huh? Which non-bank will be underwriting the bond then?

-what are you referring too wiseone?


VOTE NO TO SPLOST

[queenbee]

NO TO SPLOST

YES TO HILLARY

[AskTheWiseOldMan]

bubbadebubba said:

askthewiseoldman said:

No banks huh? Which non-bank will be underwriting the bond then?

-what are you referring too wiseone?


VOTE NO TO SPLOST

Norm made a point of stating that no money would be borrowed from any banks. As most people know, bond issues must be underwritten by banks or through large brokerages.

[sometimeman]

Give up your wallet, Give you wallet up!
Liemar needs it! He can't run Union County with out it.

[mac]

They haven't even bothered to try an tell us that it keeps property taxes from going up this go around.

[bubbadebubba]

askthewiseoldman said:

bubbadebubba said:

-what are you referring too wiseone?


VOTE NO TO SPLOST

Norm made a point of stating that no money would be borrowed from any banks. As most people know, bond issues must be underwritten by banks or through large brokerages.

So the ole mangler of words now knows more than the Board huh??
But then the Board is out of tune with the county.

[bubbadebubba]

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