Thanks, Ken!

Thanks, Ken! Lest anyone thought that you actually have a brain, you have now gone and eliminated all doubt. In today's News-Gazette, His Idiocy has proclaimed, in pure, simple-minded fashion, that 'if we don't increase the tax rate, we haven't increased the tax.'

What a moron! Let's see, yesterday, the city taxed and spent $100. Today the city taxed and spent $120.

I know it's hard, dumb ass, but you just increased taxes by $20. Whether that increase was accomplished by increasing the rate or increasing the levy, what's the difference? Taxpayers are paying $20 more.

I guess, in Pirok's simple-minded world, if my house increases in value by 10%, the cost of everything the city does must have also increased 10%. Wake up, Ken! There is virtually NO logical relationship between increased housing values and the cost of city services. If you wanted to increase the total levy by the Consumer Price Index, that would be one thing. But to just leave the rate constant in the face of dramatically escalating values and then delude yourself into thinking that taxes are static is just dumb. Even Ken's sister, Kendra, agrees with that.

Now, unless you are a moron as big as Ken, you know that the price of providing city services increases over time, and, all things being equal, the city has to collect additional tax revenue to provide those same services.

The larger question (not sure Ken-boy has ever considered this) is whether the city could (and should) get by with less. Has it ever occurred to the city council that it would be OK, even noble, to reduce the overall tax levy?

I think all the booze has killed the 17 brain cells that KP was born with.