State, city, and county workers who are driving around Kentucky in taxpayer-provided cars should turn them in now:
Gov. Beshear and other public officials lost a lot of their borrowing capability as the municipal bond market tightened significantly in 2008. Even if Beshear has the ability to use the billion dollar ace in the hole given to him by the General Assembly, Kentucky's fiscal health would fare much better if he doesn't.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Kentucky, follow New York on this one
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I hope that you are not suggesting that we follow New York blindly and completely.
I am all for having the administrative employees turn their cars in immediately.
HOWEVER, just think about,for a moment. What would be the consequences of having the police park their take home vehicles.
First, where would they park the cars? What would be the lost revenue for parking spaces the cars would occupy?
Overtime costs would soar. Response time would cause major traffic problems and possibly cost lives. Not to mention the road rage that would escalate with no police in sight.
No more visibility and availability of some 750 cars at any given time in the city of Louisville would be catastrophic.
Police WOULD NOT AND COULD NOT, in their private vehicles,while off duty, stop to render aid, wreckless drivers and other numerous situations that happen on a daily basis by officers off duty, WITHOUT PAY.
Overtime up, response time down, crime up, confidence in safety down.
Granted, paying mileage for those who have to respond while off duty is a wonderful idea, but NOT FOR POLICE!
What say you now?
10:04,
I'm not.
Penalizing public employees for the consequences of bad tax policies, is unjustifiable.
Why give businesses "economic incentives" that go on for perpetuity? And why do religious institutions not have to pay local property taxes? They get the same municipal services as the taxpaying citizens do, why shouldn't they pay their fair share?
Property owners are stakeholders in a community. They are just as responsible for carrying their own load as well as contributing the the economic health of the community they service.
End welfare for private enterprise and religious institutions.
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