Comments on: “NO” Means “We’re Coming At You Again And We Need To Change The Law To Make It Easier To Tax”

By: Interested Citizen

Interested Citizen — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:52:02 +0000

Monkey see, monkey do, as Canyon County did. Two more strikes and the bond issues are out and dead.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:53:49 +0000

Love Boise: Bieter and the gang have done nothing to trim the budget. They love to spend, and not very wisely. They didn’t even notice the recession, just kept raising taxes every year and won’t stop unless they are booted out of office. JJ: totally agree with you

By: Bus Rider

Bus Rider — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:20:21 +0000

It makes me chuckle that these knuckleheaded politicians scream about the “tyranny of the minority” when it was that same slim slice of voters who kept them in office in the first place!! And I echo the sentiment of other posters: Boise needs to cut its budget. This is the ONLY municipal taxing district that hasn’t forgone the 3% tax increase during the recession. And no, not mowing parks in hopes people won’t notice does NOT qualify as reducing the budget, Mayor Bieter.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:43:42 +0000

Does the mayor think of other minority groups such as Hispanics, homosexuals and the disabled as tyrants? Does he possibly hate them as much as he hates those “tyrants” who didn’t vote for his pet projects?

Who is the real tyrant, the person who takes your money or the person who tries to keep their own money. I say the Mayor is the tyrant and to prove it now that he lost, he wants to change the rules so he can win.

I will be giving my “buck a month” to the next viable challenger to the Mayor and doubling my Boise Guardian annual donation to fund local government transparency.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:48:30 +0000

Reid is the majority leader in the Senate and he brings bills and treaties up for votes and even sometines loses.

By: Steve Crea

Steve Crea — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 03:38:56 +0000

I must wonder if Dave Bieter has perhaps read about Mayor Tom Dale being bounced out of office by the voters of Nampa in the last election. If he has not bothered to read the papers, he had best sit up and take a little notice.

Big time spending, pandering to the Nampa Police Department, and using the Nampa Police Department and the Nampa prosecutors as revenue collectors and a profit center has not served him well. Well, that is if he wanted a third term as mayor!!

The voters of Nampa finally realized that the spending and overpolicing and overprosecuting resulted in a repulsive, repugnant, and putrid stink over the Nampa.

Perhaps Bieter should review Tom Dale’s failed playbook!!

By: Mike Tracy

Mike Tracy — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:40 +0000

I am not surprised that the Mayor is going to try other approaches to raise taxes. According to the Boise City website spending has gone from $293,000,000 in 2010 to $475,000,000 in 2013. You’d think the Mayor and city council could have found $18,000,000 to fund fire station repairs, new construction, and a new training facility in the $450,000,000 of new spending they’ve generated in just the last four years.

That brings up the next point. Why does the mayor think he needs a tax levy, tax bond or any other new funding mechanism to generate the $18,000,000 he was asking for in one of the bonds that failed on November 5th?

According to the data on the Boise City website it looks like the mayor will have his $18,000,000 without cutting a bit of spending, or a single employee. How? The 3% property tax increase, which Boise apparently takes every year. That property tax increase allowed by state law will generate $14,250,000 in 12 months. That means that over the next 15 months there will be $18,000,000 in brand new revenue that the city can budget for the new fire training center, repairs to existing stations and any other fire station construction they laid out in the bond.

Problem solved. That is unless the fire station issues are not really the emergency that the Mayor and the “Yes Yes” campaign said they are. These new tax dollars should go to the so-called “emergency” outlined in the “Yes Yes” campaign Bond rhetoric and not for some other spending like additional studies of the “trolley folly.”

That means we could have all fire station facilities paid for and built by about April 2015 without passing another bond or levy.

By: Nan e mouse

Nan e mouse — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:57:59 +0000

Then Dave, he should have also brought up Harry Reid who is the corresponding tyranny of the minority who refuses to bring up legislation in the senate.

Bit I really don’t think that was his point.

By: Nan e mouse

Nan e mouse — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 22:52:55 +0000

Rod you crack me up. In the Hpuse, the republicans are in the majority. Just because you think it so doesn’t make it so.

EDITOR NOTE–Not to do Rod’s bidding, but I think his message referred to speaker Boehner personally being the minority who wouldn’t let the reasonable majority–republicans and dems alike–vote on various measures.

By: Love Boise

Love Boise — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:33:55 +0000

I voted no. I will gladly pay $2 a month instead of $1. How to get me to vote yes?
1. Mr. Mayor, please list things you have done recently to trim the budget.
ie: All the Boise City cars that are used for the sole purpose of commuting to and from work. I see the city logo on many white trucks/cars parked in residential driveways. I see vans with Boise Fire logos driving around town all the time, even after hours. (no, not on duty fire engines or support cars!) I see dozens of Boise Police cars parked in driveways, even in Canyon County. How much can you save in gasoline by taking away the cars and selling half of them? Start trimming the “fat” and I will gladly give you twice what you are asking for. Until then, NO WAY!