Consider the 80/20 percent factor
Consider the 80/20 percent factor
The electorate of this Re- public needs to understand what their position is in this nation.
Eighty percent of registered voters are also property owners; they either are buying their homes or they already own them. What they fail to completely grasp is that this situation makes them also owners of their public schools, owners of their township infrastructure, owners of the operations completed for the functioning of the county that their home is located in.
Eighty percent of registered voters have not one idea of where the thousands of dollars of the money that they pay via various taxes on the property they “own” is being used for. In effect, they have abandoned their ownership of the most important issues of their lives: liberty and justice.
Twenty percent of registered voters are keenly aware that schools, townships, counties, and other public institutions do not generate any income; they only soak up the income of the residents that support them through taxes, levies, bond issues, etc. As “owners” that 20 percent of registered voters want equitable returns for the money that they choose to pay by approving various issues requiring the payment of salaries for their employees, to maintain and support the infrastructure that they own and to pay for health care for their employees.
The 80 percent seem to be happy giving their money for little return; the 20 percent are getting ready to defeat any and all school levies, township levies and any expenses that to not show a suitable return for the tax dollar invested.
As American patriots, we need to flip these percentages: 80 percent must take charge of the spending of these tax dollars and reclaim our rights as owners.
Al Bahl, Howland