Raise taxes on spray paint. How much does the City spend on Cement Gray and Indian Tan annually? Let the taggers and their neglectful "parents" help offset the cost of Graffiti Busters and its equipment. By the way, Graffiti Busters needs more cameras. I want to see those cameras up and flashing because THAT generates revenue too.
Raise taxes on alcohol. Beer cans and broken bottles litter our alleys (until a homeless person comes along to pick up the can and rifle through my garbage, adding to the debris in the alley) and streets. Call it a sin tax, but I prefer to call it a luxury tax. Oh, hell, raise taxes on tobacco too. Have you ever spent a morning at a park clean-up picking up cigarette butts?? By the way, these two jokers are professional panhandlers whose turf is the corner of Indian School and the Black Canyon frontage road. ALWAYS drunk. Always annoying drivers for money. ALWAYS leaving their garbage on the side of the road. Somehow, you are paying for their drink and general sloth.
We need to tax luxuries, not creature comforts! If the drunk PARENTS of children who live in the apartment complex down the street just HAVE to drink two cases of beer each every weekend, then leave their litter all over the street for me to walk my dog past in the morning, let them pay for it! I'll be happy to pay more for any alcohol I purchase, because I do not need it. And they don't need it either, even though they buy it anyway. Wow, what a great opportunity... taxing something people THINK they need!
Tax junk food, NOT fresh vegetables. Children do not need Cheetos and ice cream sandwiches from the weird guy in the van trolling up and down my street playing Christmas music in July. Children need protein. I want soda pop taxed.
Liquor licenses should be more costly. This dude below was snapped stumbling down the alley right after he tossed his paper bag with a bottle inside over someone's wall. Nice mullet too.
So, yet AGAIN, the City Council is forcing responsible people who make nutritious food a priority, to foot the bill for police officers, who respond mostly to calls associated with those who are making unhealthy purchases a priority. If we didn't have so many people making unwise purchases and consuming unhealthy things, we wouldn't need so many police officers! We wouldn't need Graffiti Busters at all!
But of course, we can't raise taxes on Bud Light and Corona ooooh no.
Attend budget hearings!!!!
Upcoming meetings:
Citywide (Bilingual)
6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10
Carl Hayden High School
Auditorium
3333 W. Roosevelt St.
District 8
10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11
Devonshire Senior Center
2802 E. Devonshire Ave.
District 2
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11
Juniper Library
1825 W. Union Hills Drive
Districts 5 and 7
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11
Maryvale Community Center
4420 N. 51st Ave.
District 8
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11
South Mountain Community College
Student Union, SU 100 A
7050 S. 24th St.
Districts 1 and 5
6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16
Manzanita Senior Center
3581 W. Northern Ave.
District 7
6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16
Burton Barr Central Library
1221 N. Central Ave.
District 1
6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17
Goelet A.C. Beuf Community Center
3435 W. Pinnacle Peak Road
District 6
6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17
Madison School District Office
5601 N. 16th St.
District 3
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18
Cowden Center
Barb’s Room
9202 N. Second St.
District 6
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18
Pecos Community Center
17010 S. 48th St.
District 2
6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23
Paradise Valley Community Center
17402 N. 40th St.
District 3
6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23
Shadow Mountain Senior Center
3546 E. Sweetwater Ave.
District 7
6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23
Cesar Chavez High School
Auditorium
3921 W. Baseline Road
District 4
7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24
Steele Indian School Park
Memorial Hall
300 E. Indian School Road
