Thanks for wasting money

Lima City Council at its meeting Monday continued to abuse the public trust by giving away our tax dollars as though it were their personal checkbook. See the story here.

Some would argue that because it is the hotel/motel tax (a dubious tax that stifle tourism) it is OK because it is money collected from outsiders. Of course, money is fungible so the source of the money is irrelevant. Ideally, every dollar collected from the hotel/motel tax should be one less dollar collected from residents.

Of course, Mayor David Berger and the rest of the tax-and-spend liberals at City Hall and on City Council do not think that way. To them every dollar collected is a dollar they can pass out to groups they like.

That is an irresponsible way to handle tax dollars. These groups that are getting this largesse from the city should earn the money themselves. If they are incapable of raising that kind of money then perhaps their services are not worth the expenditure. That is how a free market works.

This is not the only example of City Council giving away money to groups. It continually, year after year, gives money away to all manner of groups.

This irresponsibility must end. Will we ever get a mayor and other elected officials who take seriously their responsibility to be good stewards of the public treasury? Unlikely.

I must say, I was hoping for more from Council President John Nixon, but apparently he is a go-along-to-get-along liberal like every other member of the Council.

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category | Big Government
author | Lucente

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