SAC CITY, IOWA – DECEMBER 27, 2010
So I got this particular piece of crazy in the mail from someone who cared enough to use the snail mail.
Note the crooked stamp and serial killer crazy writing.
On the back side you can see where he was a little obsessed with making sure that the letter didn’t fall out utilizing both saliva and tape to hold that those pieces of paper in.
As you can see from the last letter that this fan sent, he has since changed his mind and decided to start thinking of what I do as “news”
…I wonder if he’s still throwing my “reports” away. I hope that the people that feed this guy print out the website on sheets of paper so he can still experience that particular pleasure.
So anyway, here is the letter he sent this year…
Cutting away the unintelligible bits that have to do with maintenance schedules, etc., the underlying message of this TSN fan seems to be that people who do not own property do not deserve the right to participate in the conversation about the issues facing Sac City, Iowa.
The Christmas meeting of the Sac City Council was scheduled to be pretty dry and procedural, so I decided to attend the meeting, read the letter, and ask them if they agree with this concept.
It turns out, and you can watch the video for yourself, the council generally seems to feel that everyone who is interested in our community is welcome to participate in the public discourse surrounding the issues regardless of property ownership or residency.
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The argument that if you're not a landowner you don't get a voice is ridiculous. If you're a renter property tax is still part of what you pay, it's just going through an intermediary, the landlord. If property taxes doubled or tripled you can rest assured all rent would go up to cover it. Same goes for utilities. Renters contribute as much to the city and utilities as landowners do.
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The writer also seems to imply that you should get a voice ONLY if your name is listed on the deed to a property, or your name is on the receipt for property taxes. That would exclude a lot of families - married or not - where one party owned the house before the other moved in, and the second party's name was never added to the property listing. That second party might be the one paying 100% of the tax, but for whatever reason, the deed is in someone else's name.
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