Coral Gables Watch

Coral Gables: The Amazing Missing Taxpayers

Missing Taxpayer

Where are the electorate and taxpayers in Coral Gables.

For national and state issues the electorate is fiscally and socially conservative.

But for local issues there is a preference to let things take their course, except for very big issues like banning leaf blowers.  The city commission has approved additional taxes year after year with little actual community protesting.  The commission has favored labor unions and workers benefits over taxpayers, it has pushed its favorate projects (the Coral Gables Museum is a case in point), it has consistently ignored its fiduciary responsibility to oversee the administration of city leases, ad infinitum, and it has favored land owners, developers and the “too big to fail” UM.

In short, where are the amazing disappearing voters and taxpayers.

Taxes and Deficits: Not Peanuts

Most everyone understand the fundamentals; you can’t cut taxes and reduce the deficit at the same time (unless you are willing and able to cut medicare, social security and defense substantially–the rest of government spending is peanuts).

And exit polls suggested that even these more conservative voters get what the Republican Party leadership still doesn’t: that there is no way to tackle the deficit and slash taxes at the same time. Only 19 percent said cutting taxes was the top priority for the next Congress.

via Election 2010 – NYTimes.com.