If there are 61% of the services that the city provides that are not mandated and end up being eliminated, I hope that means the citizens of Tulsa can look forward to a 61% cut in the sales tax rate and the City's portion of property taxes.

What I do not want to see is taxpayers paying the same amount for a lower level of service. City employees don't deserve a 156% raise.

And to say there will be no layoffs is laughable. How do you achieve cost savings if you don't lay off employees, which are the biggest expense of the city?

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Re: Green Tide

12/ 7/2010 - 12:41am

what a waste of my money. i say my money because the federal government gets the money for this program by stealing money from me by raising the taxes I have to pay.

i hope the new traffic lights the city bought address the fact that LEDs don't burn as hot as the older style lights, and thus don't melt snow. other cities that have installed LED traffic lights learned about this problem with their first snow, when the snow wasn't melted off by the heat from the lights. Drivers couldn't see what color the lights were; they didn't know whether it was green and they could go or red and thus they needed to stop. but hey, at least they were using less energy...

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Re: Wages and Sin

9/22/2010 - 10:06am

Liberal Blatt thinks that increasing income tax rates is a panacea for covering the increased social spending he and his ilk want to enact.

Did he learn nothing from his study? Just like higher taxes on tobacco caused lower consumption (and thus lower tax revenues than expected); increasing income tax rates will result in the people actually producing income to move across the border to Texas, taking the income Blatt wants to tax with them.

So not only will Oklahoma lose out on the "increased" revenue Blatt envisions with the higher rates he wants, but the state will also lose the revenue those people are currently willing to pay to the state. So the state will be left with the low income residents who don't pay income tax but yet use the majority of the services the state spends money on.

Great plan!

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