re: So how can the masses that live in EBR complain about things when voter turnout is 26%?

Hey we got a new constable who parades with murderers.

#BRProud

At that time he wasn't a murderer (that we know of)

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60% don’t even pay taxes so it’s really not that bad

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Everyone pays a sales tax. (For the most part).

Thus the "for the most part."

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They seem to slip taxes in on those types of elections too.

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Odd how that always happens, isn't it?

We need to get back to the days where tarring and feathering a politician was acceptable. If you make an example of one, the rest snap in line for some reason. Nobody got froggy in Romania after they put Ceausescu up against the wall, did they?

We shouldn't let these slimy fricks put a decades long tax measure on a Dec. 8 election. They know they can time it to propose the tax in a council meeting such that the next election day available (which they legally have to use) is a day they know they can bus in enough people to vote with them to let them steal whatever they want out of your pocket. For this reason, all tax measures should legally be required to be on national election day during either a presidential election year or a midterm year. Politicians who want to hide a tax measure so they can frick the people out of more money like this need to be beaten with the claw of a hammer.

On the other hand, the 75% of people that allow shite like this to happen because they don't show up to vote on a three decade long tax their GRANDKIDS will be paying need to be beaten with the other side of the hammer.

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I haven’t bothered to cast a vote since 1998. My one vote won’t matter and I’m too busy.

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You’re the problem.

One of the problems is that it's highly unlikely that any single person's vote is change the outcome. This is why if you truly want to be heard you need to be more involved politically than just going to the ballot box.

Show up at legislative meetings, do some committee volunteer work, maybe even work to get out more voters to vote the way you want.

But if all you do is show up to vote you're wasting your time.

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2 major taxes on the ballot and less than 27% of the registered voters came out and had their voices heard?

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The only reason it was that high was the SoS runoff, which wasn’t even a big draw.

Can’t disagree with you Slippy. There’s really
No excuse for not voting.

That said, it will be interesting to see all the improvements that will result from this new tax. Has the mayor cited a time frame for when we Should see the work starting?

EBR residents that have a sad that we got our taxes raised again. Take solace in the fact that the higher sales tax makes the people that don't pay shite in property taxes in EBR kick in for the roads that they use.