In 2008 my home city was devastated in a flood. The rebuilding has been slow - painfully slow. After the flood the city elected a Republican mayor who had previously been speaker of the Iowa statehouse. As a legislator he was very conservative.
As mayor he's come out in support of unions and proposed the largest tax increase in the history of the city. His proposed 1 cent sales tax to be in place for 20 years was voted on yesterday. It lost by a couple of hundred votes out of over 30,000 cast.
I'm glad I was not able to vote. Never have I been more conflicted on an issue. There was much to like and dislike about the proposal and I have no idea how I would have voted if I lived in CR. What makes me angry is that my city's leaders are constantly throwing out "all or nothing" plans. There are reasonable plans that I think could have passed that would not have required a TWENTY YEAR tax hike.
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