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Advertising Prize Nomination For Presumption
I do not know who came up with it, but I wish to nominate for a special award for creativity, paternalism and presumption, the person or persons who devised the brilliant idea of inviting the citizens of Oro Valley to choose the size of the property tax with which they wish to burden themselves.
If I read the periodicals properly, we are to be invited to participate in a series of instructional meetings that will help guide us in developing an ultimate decision concerning that in which we intend to be engaged while playing and picknicking in the various elements to be installed in Naranja Town Park.
The amount of money we decide to borrow and spend on these amenities will direct the size of the the Bond Issue that we will retire by levying a property tax on ourselves.
Oops! Pardon my hearing aid! Did you say PROPERTY TAX?
I don’t need no stinking property tax!
I’ve been involved in advertising in Pima County since 1960 and this is the slickest bit of smoke and mirrors I’ve encountered.
Do you really want to start something that will never have an ending? Is this the legacy our Town’s Leaders wish to leave for our children and their children’s children? Whether it’s $42-million or $164-million to be spent on this monumental project, there will be reason to keep a Town Property Tax in perpetuity. Anyone want to bet that when and if the bonds referenced herein are retired that the property tax will disappear?
Instead of holding out a lollypop, why can there not first be a plebiscite on the Questions: Shall Oro Valley impose a property tax or will it impose a spending cap?
Phil Richardson
