Brickbat: Going Up…and Up

In Pennsylvania, the Delaware County Council voted 4–1 to raise property taxes by 23 percent. The council hiked taxes 5 percent last year. Council members cited rising costs and flat revenues as the reason for the tax increase, saying it was needed to fund essential projects. The county government has a budget of about $397 million.
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The Delaware County Council has become Enlightened enough to realize that jacking up the LIVING SNOT out of taxes, and setting them sky-high, leads to WONDERFUL things with NO down sides!
And WHERE did they get this Wonderful idea? From none other than Dear Leader (The Donald) and His tariff-taxes!!! Praises Be; All Hail!!!
Hey doofus, wait until you get a load of this:
PA President General Election - Delaware County
Kamalamadingdong : 201,324 (61.4%)
Donnie J : 123,421 (37.6%)
Yea, they got the idea from Donnie T. That's it. Keep reaffirming your own bogus narratives. Repeat them to yourselves and NEVER leave that echo chamber. That's what literally every normie in America wants you to keep doing.
I'm not kidding. Go raise a rainbow flag in the name of mother gaia as you pray to saint floyd. We normal people WANT you to keep doing this. In some part so we can laugh at you as you wonder why it's all crumbling down around you. But mostly so that it all crumbles down around you.
So then AT the AuthorShitarian TotalShitarian, TWAT are Ye PervFectly saying? Sky-high taxes are actually a BAD thing? Except when they are set in the form of TARIFFS, and they have been set by a "Team R" Dear Leader? Is THAT twat Ye are PervFectly saying? Through all Your PervFected drool and spittle spraying all over from You and Your PervFect Tinfoil Hate-Hat, shit is VERY hard to see TWAT exactly Ye are TRYING to cummunick-hate!
And offset by a Tax-Cut Act.
Displaying your obsessive TDS is all your doing.
Not as-if all your creative names didn't lock that into stone.
"And offset by a Tax-Cut Act."
So is Dear Leader now passing "Acts" of Congress? First, He sets taxes (tariffs) levels, and now He passes "Acts" ass swill? Is Congress just decorative window dressing and toilet paper by now? Is this per the USA Cunts-Tits-Tuition?
Again, you keep pointing the finger - but ignoring the four pointing right back at you.
You pinko leftists. Always with the projection.
Blue counties gon' blue county.
You'll own nothing and like it.
To where now are people expected to flee Filthacrapia County?
Indeed. All summarized by the conquer and consume mentality...
Borrow, Steal and Spend. Borrow, Steal and Spend. Borrow, Steal and Spend.
When the BILL comes RUN to someone else's greener-pasture to milk it dry.
They fled but didn't change their voting, so they got the same crap.
All part of voting for those who promise to, "Gov-Gun STEAL from all your neighbors on your behalf."
'Guns' don't make sh*t.
Democrats love the Al'Capone [WE] gangs of criminals in charge.
Liberty and Justice will never exist if people won't ensure that it exists.
Democrats gotta do what democrats gotta do.
Sensationalism for sensationalism sake?
Tell us what "by 23%" means. Sure, it sounds atrocious, but if property taxes are, say, 10%, then a 23% increase makes the tax rate 12.3%.
According to the source article, the average increase will be about $185 per year. That's just over $15 a month. That's hardly budget breaking.
This story tells us nothing other than a tax increase is in store. How about a little more information as to why other than a general "essential projects". What are they trying to fund?
In all likelihood, they are trying to fund a think-tank on how to spend more while doing less. Nothing is free!