Library Tax? NO! NONONO!

On the Tuesday, November 6th ballot in Jefferson County Kentucky, there will be a choice to increase the occupational wage 2.0% for those who work (not live) in Jefferson County, to "Save" the libraries. While this may not seem like much of an increase for some people, you can think of it this way: For every $100 earned, you'll pay $2.00 additional in taxes. A paycheck of $800 will loose an additional $16, $1,000 will loose $20, and so on. In addition to this, for every $1,000 earned there is an increase of 2.0% in the tax up to a certain (Rich East end) level.

Mayor for life is hiding something though... How is Louisville one of the highest taxed cities, but yet we don't have any of the benefits of a big city, like a subway system, a train system, universal walking/riding trail. Instead we have Mayor for life using "Eminent Domain" to usurp lands from people to build strip malls and raising taxes to fund the library system. What happened to the money that was allocated for the libraries before Jerry? Matter of fact, where is a lot of the money we're paying now going to? I'm not seeing many improvements in our streets, our police force, our parks system or education.

Just like I myself need to learn to properly use my income more efficiently, our fair Metro government needs to learn to use the tax they're already collecting properly and correctly instead of slipping a few hundred thousand dollars into their greedy, grimy drug lined pockets.

While I rarely talk politics, since it is a strong personal belief with oneself, this is something I feel I needed to speak out about. I am voting no on the tax increase to save the libraries as that's something that our metro council should already be doing without any additional effort from me. I never even use the library system any more, any day I have off, the library is closed. Not that I don't believe in the library system, but there are better ways to fund it, shit, I'm already paying out nearly 30% of my paycheck into taxes by both living and working in Jefferson County.

Ps. Norma and I were married on Wednesday, October 31st 2007.