Reply #95: Actually, no, it's not... [View All]

[tnlefty]

but this is what we're left with, and if you think that you can convince anyone to pay more in taxes for services then I shall state again:

People pay their taxes, people struggle to pay their taxes and the 'sweeteners' offered to VW to locate in my county piss people off from the rational folks of both sides of the political spectrum....in addition to a lot of other crap, millions were taken from my county school district, even though part of my county taxes go to pay for schools in poorer counties. I don't mind that so much except the wealthy in those counties should pay more than they do.

$60 million was pulled from the college/university system to pay for VW, and yes, the tuition for my oldest (in his 3rd year at MTSU) went up this year. NONE of this was revealed to taxpayers, even though many requests were made for over a year
, until after it was a done deal. I suppose that was the best way to avoid torches and pitchforks.

Developers are going under because they built houses (not emaculate, nor huge), but they were planning for $17 -$19/hr wages being paid and then 2 yrs. later it was revealed that the starting wage would be $14.50/hr.

No, my logic isn't a la crate services, but what people will endure. And what happened in one county in TN, carried through by a bunch of assholes, doesn't reflect most of the people in this state, who will help people that they don't get along with in an emergency. I hope what the assholes did, in one county in TN, haunts them for the rest of their lives.