Ken Nelson

Liberal think:
It would be so much better if WalMart didn’t provide us variety at low prices

I got an e-mail with this subject:  “

   “Backdoor Tax – use volunteers and the private sector”

It turned out to contain a link to this article entitled:

Strapped City Cuts and Cuts

There I leaned about Colorado Springs, CO, whose voters have severely hamstringed their political class from spending, and GASP… actually forced them to cut severely.

But… it is still a great place to live:

"We’re a model of how cities can creatively adapt to budget adversity," says Sean Paige, a self-described libertarian on the city council. "You can have great quality of life without a great big government at the heart of it."

The sender of the note apparently thinks, based on the e-mail subject, that partnering with private sector to do things that benefit them and the city, or partnering with focused volunteers particularly interested in a problem or part of the city is a “tax”.

Here’s a note to the sender… taxes aren’t VOLUNTARY.  Taxes are OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY and are ALWAYS used inefficiently.

The sender sends lots of stuff like that. We still love him, but wish he would focus less on mislabeling liberal think and more on becoming a libertarian thinker.