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county commisioner potts drives bus tax increase | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)

Potts voted with Democrats (none / 0) (#6)
by Cvn76 on Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 05:22:48 PM EST

County Commission Dave Potts and Steven H. Schwartz are pushing a plot by SMART and community agitation groups such as the GAMALIEL Foundation, MOSES, and TRU to tax ALL current opt-out communities to keep the inefficient SMART bus system open. The countywide bus tax increase will increase taxes over $17,000,000 as well as force the 40 opt-out communities such as West Bloomfield Township, Livonia, Novi and the other two-thirds of Oakland county who have currently chosen to "opt-out" of this failed and inefficient bus system.

Please note that this plan is fraudulently being sold as a tax "decrease" for the current opt-in communities (a miniscule $4 per $100,000 of assessed home value) yet the total TAX INCREASE is actually over $17,000,000 countywide as ALL of Oakland County's 61 communities will be forced into the bus system.

Although L. Brooks Patterson opposes this Bus Tax increase, please get the word out and tell "Republicans" to STOP SPENDING our money on failed big government programs.

Well, Potts voted with the Democrats for the tax increase. just another rino...

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091130/METRO/911300403/1361/Oakland-commissioners-nix-idea-of-count ywide-SMART-millage

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