Services the city offer are not free. How do you expect the city to maintain its services? It costs money to employ people and to provide insurance and benefits. As the city grows so does the number of employees. You would be the first one to complain when your services were delayed or not even offered at all.

I never said anything about getting services for free, or paying NO taxes on my property.

My point is that the property values RISE and the governments ACROSS our GREAT country seem to NEVER roll back the milliage rates, they just keep collecting MORE taxes from us.

If a government is running on a budget of 1 million and the milliage rate brings in that money, then next year the property values go up and they bring in 1.5 million, any fool can see you need to ROLL BACK the milliage rate, not just keep taking my money and FIND ways to spend it, so next year you'll want more.

By the way, since you know so much, why are our property taxes so much when we pay a STATE INCOME TAX. Shouldn't our property taxes be much lower then they are?

If you want to drive on my roads, be protected from invaders by my army; and police and firemen and women, be protected by my Mexican wall, be served by millions of government employees--who would be begging if they didn't have those jobs, and buying our oil from Arabs, then YOU MUST pay some taxes!

What is your problem, I pay taxes, I don't have a problem paying MY taxes for services I recieve and OTHERS recieve.

The PROBLEM is they just keep taking MORE and MORE. And ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

You want money for all the programs and services, how about the {{{EDITED AND WARNED}}} government cuts their high f'ing pay. Why do we have so many people in government making 100 of thousands of dollars that come from OUR paychecks. And when was the last time YOU got to tell YOUR boss that YOU were getting a raise?

Government is {{{EDITED AND WARNED}}}, they just take more and more from us and expect us to keep bending over and saying "thank you, can I have another"

Lay off me now, I UNDERSTAND taxes are needed to run our goverments, but there is WAY too much waste for them to keep expecting more fomr me and you.

CUT THE WASTE, that's the bottom line, don't feed me crap about what programs and services need more money, CUT THE WASTE.

I'm beginning to think you must be a democrat.

Remember that bully in school? The longer you continued to react to his poking a stick at you, the more he poked the stick? Don't even read dollar's responses. Usually the are rude, dumb, and not worth getting your "edit and warned" in a knot!

You think?
I'll lay offyou. I'm afraid of you!

I don't know how long you've been on this website, but if you read where Dollar has posted, you'll notice that nobody is replying. It's not worth it.

there are three on here who never want to hear the truth. They hate it.
They don't like to think, they don't care about such idiots as we have in Washington--although they are ashamed they voted for them, and they don't want to pay taxes either. They want a stupid "sales" tax, with everything they buy being exempt from sales tax.
They are weird people, but we are gradually rooting them out.

who is we dollar? How are you rooting them out? Is it they don't want to hear the truth or is it they don't want to hear your truth?

I yam what I yam...Popeye

...and please don't equate him to a Democrat or a "liberal".

I moved here two years ago from South Florida, I have been reading here often, I only just registered so as to be able to respond.

I understand you all just ignore him, but that won't make him go away. I don't mind argueing with idiots and I of course will have to watch myself so as not to get edited and warned, AGAIN.

It just AMAZES me how time and time again, I say I don't mind paying my share of taxes, and he keeps stating that myself and others don't want to pay ANY at all. Is he really just that thick headed.

And by the way dollar, there should be a consumption or use tax instead of our stupid income tax. Then and only then you can't say the rich are getting a tax break, they are the nones buying everything on a whim, and they are the ones who will pay more and more taxes.

We low lifes on the other hand, can save on taxes by putting off buying that new car or new furniture or whatever, until next year.

I'm sure you'll have a great response as to how the rich will get around the use tax and the poor will somehow pay for it all.

you also made no comment about the people in our governments making WAY too much money off our tax dollars, when that money could be better spent to fund the "services" we need.

if it disolved. The county gives the sames services at a fraction of the cost. People living in the county rather than town pay less taxes and get the same services except the library, which PTC's is 3 miles away. I don't know the history, but I get the feeling, Tyrone was a cute little...COMUNITY..that was sold on the idea it should be a town. There is nothing wrong with being a community. Being incorporated has cost the Tyronesses big bucks in taxes and to feed this town, it has called for more housing on smaller lots. The truth is Tyrone, as a stand alone, couldn't support it's self, there are not enough taxpayers so it keeps annexing more land for deverlopers. If all the towns did this, Fayette county would just be one big sprawling town/towns. Really, the people would be better off if Tyrone just became a community again. The county is well run, and keeps developers at bay.

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. ..."
The Rights of Man (1792)

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”
Common Sense (1776)