If you are a registered voter you have probably received 2
or 3 Green Flyers touting the PSTA Greenlight Pinellas County $100 million
Sales tax Increase
Read them very carefully.
For example one promises "an Accountable plan Where
Citizens are In Charge." It then goes on to point out that the
"GreenLight Project will be held accountable by a Citizens Oversight
Committee made up of Industry Professionals who will have to knowledge and authority
to make sure the Pinellas Suncoast transit Authority is managing projects
effectively."
Note that the citizens committee doesn't really consist of
citizens like you unless of course you happen to be an "industry
professional" or a commercial real-estate broker. It also is probably a good idea to make a
donation to GreenLight Yes if you want to be on the committee that will have
"knowledge and authority". The real-estate folks are up to about
$250,000 in donations that is likely good enough for the chairmanship.
Something around $25,000 could probably assure you a seat at
the table.
All these people really want is your vote yes and then 1% of
almost everything you buy for the next 90 years. Then they will tell you what
is in your best interest.
Carefully read, the Greenlight Flyers tell you what an
incredible boondoggle handing $130 million dollars over to PSTA under this
sales tax ordinance really is.
We
need improved public transportation in Pinellas County but not like this.
Not
with a publicly funded sales tax supported project managed by the very people
who will go as far as subverting Homeland Security funds to promote their
goals.
Not
a project pseudo managed by a citizens committee made up of the very people who
stand to gain the most financially from the project.
What's
missing here? Serving those in this community that desperately need public
transportation.
E-mail
Doc at: dr.webb@verizon.net. Or
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Disclosures: Contributor to No Tax for Tracks.
Disclosures: Contributor to No Tax for Tracks.
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