PAY ATTENTION WHEN YOUR TOWN KEEPS RAISING TAXES - Here is what may get their attention.๐๐
A town keeps raising taxes, so a resident shows up to speak, wearing an English lordโs wig. Instead of protesting, he sarcastically supports the increases and says, โIf you canโt pay your taxesโฆ donโt be poor.โ
Why? Because the people raising the taxes donโt live like the people paying them. The town administrator, Todd Selig, has never been elected, has held his appointed job for 17 years, and makes over $300,000 a year with THREE months of paid vacation.
And if you watch these meetings, you know the pattern. Regular people come up looking for answers, maybe a little dialogue. The administrators DO sit there like an aristocratic court, silent, unmoved, barely looking up. No response. No engagement. Just a posture that says, your problems arenโt my problemsโฆ so why are you here?
The wig wasnโt the problem. The disconnect was.