Giving government more money is the same as giving an alcoholic another drink or giving Hunter more cocaine. It is wasted and totally corrupting. Letting them borrow more money to pursue their pipe dreams is the definition of insanity.
Exactly…why do continue feeding the beast? US TAXPAYERS are paying for it all. Paris accord = scam (trillions)…Foreign Aid = scam (trillions)…WAR = scam (trillions)………on…and….on……..
Who audits where the money actually goes? Who actually receives the money? The US taxpayer is funding the very people we are engaged in taking down. There are slush funds everywhere. Think GS pays for Antifa out of his own pocket?
The hole is deep.
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Clinton' [D] party?
Who paid _Hussein's Harvard Law Degree? Who financed _Hussein's political life? Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal? Why are Hussein's school records under seal?
What happens to US taxpayer funds transferred overseas under guise of AID, MIL, CLIMATE, etc.?
This comes at a time where I just paid my first property tax payment for nearly $10,000, for something that I own. I’m voting no on all the proposed tax increases. It has to stop.
Sometimes you have to look outside your own environment to realize you are being screwed. After being "booted" out of SB by the City, as of 2021 we now live in a $500K house with a third of your property tax. And the house is built much better and larger than anything you'll find in California, perhaps excluding old houses in places like Montecito. I am now living in a $5M "California" house ... and if I'm lucky I might see snow! The house has three levels, including a basement you can live in, three heat pumps, five bedroom and five toilets in a high-class neighborhood and in a city that operates efficiently ... no waste of taxpayer's money. The house I speak of is at 2116 Chatham, Dalton, GA; Zillow shows pictures from the previous owner. The house has three electric water heaters. How many homes do you know where the shower water temperature isn't affected by someone turning on a faucet or flushing the toilet?
Until and unless SB City & County break the stranglehold SEIU and other public employee unions have on the salaries, benefits and pensions that are paid....the charade of fiscal control in local govt will perpetuate. Increasing sales tax in SB will adversely impact sales at the margin for vehicles, hotel rooms, and whatever few retail goods are still sold there. I predict this persistent fiscal morbidity will fix the housing shortage...more folks will choose to leave if they can.
This article is right on the money. I recommend that all should visit the US National Debt Clock Realtime online at least once a month. If you have not visited it before, it is an amazing, one-page, dynamic presentation of almost everything you need to know about the US economy and government debt and spending. The hidden factor in most discussions are the unfunded liabilities owned by the US government.
They are huge and they are fast coming home to roost. Among them are Medicare, $42 Trillion and Social Security, $27.32 Trillion, but the total of all unfunded liabilities is a huge at $220.3 Trillion.
At some point in the near future, the bubble will burst. As a start, means-testing of Social Security payments is almost a certainty when the money to pay entitlements runs out.
Here is a suggestion for action. All of us send a copy of Tim Tremblay's comparison between the City of Santa Barbara and the City of Santa Maria to the members of the Santa Barbara City Council, demanding answers on the spendthrift policies in the governance of the City of Banta Barbara, demanding a complete rebudgeting of all departments in the city administration to solve the issues they have created.
Young people are starting to get this. They know all this government debt was taken out in their names.
Everything Obama-Biden-Harris has done increases their own future debt burden, while they knocked out the props for a recovery economy. Government pension holders better get it too.
Younger voters know nothing that is free, just that they are the ones today that are the designated future payors. While Democrats have now spent decades getting them to obsess about some murky future "climate change". From daily K-12 indoctrination to massive funding of meaningless and failed government subsidies.
Raw new deal for them, is how they now see "climate change". And that scam has 100% Democrat fingerprints on it. Yeah Al Gore, here is looking at you.
What Mr. Tremblay would say this? "We are seeing this “fiscal irresponsibility” at all levels ...."
As government at all levels continues to spend, spend, spend, they also make sure government employees have wages in excess of most private sector jobs. The top dogs like the City Administrator of Santa Barbara makes more then the Gov.
It is past time set the bit and tell the horses at City Council "No more retirement or benefits." We will not fund your failures with a shovel pouring tax dollars into your pockets.
"We can begin to insist upon fiscal responsibility at the local level by voting “NO” on Measure I ...." It is past time to start cutting top level salaries and see that "full time" employees show up on the job and work 5 days a week.
Well done Tim. In financial terms "The trend is not your friend." Consider just last month 32,000 government jobs were added and manufacturing loss jobs. Who, or what, are these people "governing?"
Really, Tim, don't you think we should go further in debt to save Democracy from Hitler? Here we have this new and improved version of the Democratic Party - they may have lost Bezos, Musk, Kennedy, Gabbard and Soon-Shiong, but now they have Liz and Dick Cheney - and those two are masters at bombing into obliteration any country or American citizen who stands in the way of Democracy.
There is no price tag too big for saving America from those who think free speech has any place in a free world.
Forget Uncle Sam, tired old loser. Uncle Satan needs you!
Don't get me wrong, I am voting for Donald Trump. Not a hard call, but if we are being honest I don't think we are going to get any cuts in the federal budget under him. However, the profligate Democrats still think they can spend money like a drunken sailor. As long as Uncle Sam is going to print the money, they are going to spend it.
Very good and well written article. It hits my second largest issue with local government, idiology based priorities and decisions. It is clear that these tax increases affect the poor and the middle class disportionately. Government spend based on funding and idiology drivers the priorities and decisions 🙄 not fiscal responsibility or community welfare. This has to change if we going to be a prosperous and healthy society.
Any Democrat who tries to ignore this, or blame Trump, should not be given the time of day. We are moving past blame and into solutions only. They are on board or not. No excuses.
My dad spent his life being self-employed, mostly fixing stuff such as radios and televisions. Here are some of his traits throughout his life: (1) Dad never borrowed money, (2) Always purchased a home (four total) or car with CASH, (3) Never wrote checks, paid CASH for everything, (4) Drove to different locations to pay utilities, in CASH, (5) Excess CASH went into a savings account, (6) Had CASH on hand (ever seen a $10,000 bill ... I have), (7) When Massachusetts taxes increased, he grew his own food to feed a family of five, (8) Everybody had a budget which included my mother buying stuff, my dad's stuff and the kids. My dad was a CASH monster ... I only wish I was too. One sister made her own clothes starting around twelve. I was the youngest and received 25-cents to mow the lawn which was my allowance to purchase toy airplanes and candy. Those were the days.
Dump the city employees and start all over again. Run the city like a business or like my dad ran his life using CASH only. If you don't have CASH to spend, then you simply sit pretty till you do.
“‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Leaking borders and leaking finances. Yes. Democrats own both. We simply cannot survive another term of Democrats in charge of anything, until they totally reinvent themselves.
OK folks. I have sent Tim's Santa Barbara to Santa Maria comparison with my added comments to each member of the SB City Council and to the new chief executive.
I like 'Vancey-Pants', but I wish to heck Trumpy had chosen Doug Burgum as his V.P. A successful businessman, and the only politician with tough talk on getting a handle on Fed debt & spending.
Giving government more money is the same as giving an alcoholic another drink or giving Hunter more cocaine. It is wasted and totally corrupting. Letting them borrow more money to pursue their pipe dreams is the definition of insanity.
Exactly…why do continue feeding the beast? US TAXPAYERS are paying for it all. Paris accord = scam (trillions)…Foreign Aid = scam (trillions)…WAR = scam (trillions)………on…and….on……..
Who audits where the money actually goes? Who actually receives the money? The US taxpayer is funding the very people we are engaged in taking down. There are slush funds everywhere. Think GS pays for Antifa out of his own pocket?
The hole is deep.
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Clinton' [D] party?
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/22919
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/24651
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Hussein' [D] party?
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30480
Different factions of foreign [primary] control?
Who paid _Hussein's Harvard Law Degree? Who financed _Hussein's political life? Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal? Why are Hussein's school records under seal?
What happens to US taxpayer funds transferred overseas under guise of AID, MIL, CLIMATE, etc.?
US TAXPAYERS funding the destruction of America?
This comes at a time where I just paid my first property tax payment for nearly $10,000, for something that I own. I’m voting no on all the proposed tax increases. It has to stop.
Remember what Klaus Schwab said “You will own nothing and you will be happy.” He neglected to say “But you'll still be paying property taxes.”
Sometimes you have to look outside your own environment to realize you are being screwed. After being "booted" out of SB by the City, as of 2021 we now live in a $500K house with a third of your property tax. And the house is built much better and larger than anything you'll find in California, perhaps excluding old houses in places like Montecito. I am now living in a $5M "California" house ... and if I'm lucky I might see snow! The house has three levels, including a basement you can live in, three heat pumps, five bedroom and five toilets in a high-class neighborhood and in a city that operates efficiently ... no waste of taxpayer's money. The house I speak of is at 2116 Chatham, Dalton, GA; Zillow shows pictures from the previous owner. The house has three electric water heaters. How many homes do you know where the shower water temperature isn't affected by someone turning on a faucet or flushing the toilet?
Hello Bill, you are absolutely correct. Califronia Politicians "The So-Called-Leaders"
of the State and of this City have destroyed all. Time to move to a better-run-state
and it ain't CALI. I moved some time ago like you. Great Decision for both of us.
By the way we are "Garbage" according to a certain Political Party.
H
Tim,
Until and unless SB City & County break the stranglehold SEIU and other public employee unions have on the salaries, benefits and pensions that are paid....the charade of fiscal control in local govt will perpetuate. Increasing sales tax in SB will adversely impact sales at the margin for vehicles, hotel rooms, and whatever few retail goods are still sold there. I predict this persistent fiscal morbidity will fix the housing shortage...more folks will choose to leave if they can.
This article is right on the money. I recommend that all should visit the US National Debt Clock Realtime online at least once a month. If you have not visited it before, it is an amazing, one-page, dynamic presentation of almost everything you need to know about the US economy and government debt and spending. The hidden factor in most discussions are the unfunded liabilities owned by the US government.
They are huge and they are fast coming home to roost. Among them are Medicare, $42 Trillion and Social Security, $27.32 Trillion, but the total of all unfunded liabilities is a huge at $220.3 Trillion.
At some point in the near future, the bubble will burst. As a start, means-testing of Social Security payments is almost a certainty when the money to pay entitlements runs out.
Here is a suggestion for action. All of us send a copy of Tim Tremblay's comparison between the City of Santa Barbara and the City of Santa Maria to the members of the Santa Barbara City Council, demanding answers on the spendthrift policies in the governance of the City of Banta Barbara, demanding a complete rebudgeting of all departments in the city administration to solve the issues they have created.
Young people are starting to get this. They know all this government debt was taken out in their names.
Everything Obama-Biden-Harris has done increases their own future debt burden, while they knocked out the props for a recovery economy. Government pension holders better get it too.
Younger voters know nothing that is free, just that they are the ones today that are the designated future payors. While Democrats have now spent decades getting them to obsess about some murky future "climate change". From daily K-12 indoctrination to massive funding of meaningless and failed government subsidies.
Raw new deal for them, is how they now see "climate change". And that scam has 100% Democrat fingerprints on it. Yeah Al Gore, here is looking at you.
What Mr. Tremblay would say this? "We are seeing this “fiscal irresponsibility” at all levels ...."
As government at all levels continues to spend, spend, spend, they also make sure government employees have wages in excess of most private sector jobs. The top dogs like the City Administrator of Santa Barbara makes more then the Gov.
It is past time set the bit and tell the horses at City Council "No more retirement or benefits." We will not fund your failures with a shovel pouring tax dollars into your pockets.
"We can begin to insist upon fiscal responsibility at the local level by voting “NO” on Measure I ...." It is past time to start cutting top level salaries and see that "full time" employees show up on the job and work 5 days a week.
SBCC President now makes more than the POTUS.
Well done Tim. In financial terms "The trend is not your friend." Consider just last month 32,000 government jobs were added and manufacturing loss jobs. Who, or what, are these people "governing?"
Every Obama, Biden Harris proposal increased the size of the government workforce, no matter what fancy ribbons they tried to dress it up in.
Really, Tim, don't you think we should go further in debt to save Democracy from Hitler? Here we have this new and improved version of the Democratic Party - they may have lost Bezos, Musk, Kennedy, Gabbard and Soon-Shiong, but now they have Liz and Dick Cheney - and those two are masters at bombing into obliteration any country or American citizen who stands in the way of Democracy.
There is no price tag too big for saving America from those who think free speech has any place in a free world.
Forget Uncle Sam, tired old loser. Uncle Satan needs you!
Don't get me wrong, I am voting for Donald Trump. Not a hard call, but if we are being honest I don't think we are going to get any cuts in the federal budget under him. However, the profligate Democrats still think they can spend money like a drunken sailor. As long as Uncle Sam is going to print the money, they are going to spend it.
Look into the job Musk is taking....
Wringing out efficiencies in govt is like extracting blood from a stone.
Very good and well written article. It hits my second largest issue with local government, idiology based priorities and decisions. It is clear that these tax increases affect the poor and the middle class disportionately. Government spend based on funding and idiology drivers the priorities and decisions 🙄 not fiscal responsibility or community welfare. This has to change if we going to be a prosperous and healthy society.
But, but, but Climate Change! Don't you worry about John Kerry's waterfront estate getting flooded by rising tides?
Pol, you gotta watch your 'buts ! :)
Any Democrat who tries to ignore this, or blame Trump, should not be given the time of day. We are moving past blame and into solutions only. They are on board or not. No excuses.
My dad spent his life being self-employed, mostly fixing stuff such as radios and televisions. Here are some of his traits throughout his life: (1) Dad never borrowed money, (2) Always purchased a home (four total) or car with CASH, (3) Never wrote checks, paid CASH for everything, (4) Drove to different locations to pay utilities, in CASH, (5) Excess CASH went into a savings account, (6) Had CASH on hand (ever seen a $10,000 bill ... I have), (7) When Massachusetts taxes increased, he grew his own food to feed a family of five, (8) Everybody had a budget which included my mother buying stuff, my dad's stuff and the kids. My dad was a CASH monster ... I only wish I was too. One sister made her own clothes starting around twelve. I was the youngest and received 25-cents to mow the lawn which was my allowance to purchase toy airplanes and candy. Those were the days.
Dump the city employees and start all over again. Run the city like a business or like my dad ran his life using CASH only. If you don't have CASH to spend, then you simply sit pretty till you do.
“‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
David Copperfield (1850)
Leaking borders and leaking finances. Yes. Democrats own both. We simply cannot survive another term of Democrats in charge of anything, until they totally reinvent themselves.
Maybe Elon will be able to twist some arms. As a business pro I'm sure Trump would buy-in.
OK folks. I have sent Tim's Santa Barbara to Santa Maria comparison with my added comments to each member of the SB City Council and to the new chief executive.
SBCityCouncil@santabarbara.gov AND KMacadoo.gov.
Now it is your turn!
I like 'Vancey-Pants', but I wish to heck Trumpy had chosen Doug Burgum as his V.P. A successful businessman, and the only politician with tough talk on getting a handle on Fed debt & spending.