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Cut foolish spending, not street maintenance

Surely Greensboro City Council members have been possessed by some mental affliction. Not only have some stated they need to add more taxes to the already overburdened property owners, but now they want “deferred maintenance” so they can use the money for something else.

I have seen before where streets have “deferred maintenance,” and it ends up costing up to five times the amount it normally would have. Plus it always comes back to more bonds, which cost property owners, and rates are never reduced after a bond is paid off. Oh! That is new-found money after being paid off.

Quit buying $40,000 trucks for maintenance supervisors who don’t need them to haul anything; put them in small trucks. Save money by cutting spending (in case you didn’t think of that).

Buddy Cato
Greensboro

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chucka [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

buddy buddy buddy...thats not how we do things in the kleptocracy. "we steal from A..give to B with the government charging a brokerage fee" ..say that real fast 5 times... its called plunder buddy..now get some KY and get with the plundercrats or be left out. you make too much sense to be considered for any future posts....and thanks for saying it

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