This is for the politicians and elected officials who get giddy with their ability to spend other people's money to the point they forget that they are expected to discharge that duty responsibly. This power transforms otherwise normal, reasonable people into spending junkies, looking for the next fix and the most expedient way to remove our money from our pockets.
The Other Dunwoody offers this simplistic explanation in the hopes it is not beyond the sight of their dollar sign encrusted eyes.
Taxes are like playing marbles. It is a twisted game of marbles, but marbles nonetheless. You draw a circle, put all your marbles in and then the government (in the case of Dunwoody, our neighbors) who puts in nothing uses its shooters to knock as many of our marbles out of the circle as possible. And they play for keepsies.Sadly current circumstances prevent us from gathering our marbles and taking them to another game and our soon-to-be government is dead set on making sure that when circumstance improve we won't have many marbles left.
The astute reader, or perhaps one old enough to have actually played marbles, might argue that each player must put in some marbles and players lag to see who goes first. Generally that's true, but do you remember the sandlot bully? The one who never plays fair? Who keeps his marbles? Who always goes first? That would be the government: federal, state, county, and yes, the City of Dunwoody. And they don't play fair for the same reason that bully didn't---they don't have to.
The first government shooter whipped out a monstrous steely. A massive thumb propelled a shot from an intentionally delayed Task Force report on police and safety. This not only knocked 2.5 times more marbles out than expected, it sent stinging ricochets right in the face of the CVIoG, seriously bruising it's credibility.
Then representatives of baseball in Dunwoody sent out their shooter. Their shot into an already scattered field blasted out twice as many marbles as originally called for by their Task Force.
There are more to come and while the government has yet to send in all their shooters they have already shown a couple of the bags they intend to use to haul off their loot. They will sneak as many marbles as possible (over 2 million) into their franchise fee bag, hoping we won't notice that they pulled some from inside the no new taxes ring. We also know they will drag out the property tax bag, filling it at least to the legal limit. Then they will call on us to inflict even more pain on ourselves by voting to give them a bigger bag. This will be supported by a tremendous promotional campaign in the Dunwoody Fan Magazine (aka Crier), condemning all dissenters as unpatriotic and anti-Dunwoody. Expect the polls to open on Super Bowl Sunday at kickoff and promptly close by half-time with polls monitored by Robert Mugabe's staff.
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