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VISION 2025 Article by Roger Bloxham

"Vision" 2025:  Vote Yes or No?

The Question should be, " Why would anyone vote 'Yes'?" 

There is a very old saying that politicians love to, "View with alarm" and "Point with pride." It's an art!

Gigantic tax proposals, which increasingly a large number of cities are promoting, certainly fall into this category. If one tracks the pattern, the proposals are invariably preceded by a year or so of hand wringing and wails of despair, followed by the usual expensive recommendations, put together by a committee of stellar citizens. 

The promotions are rarely for maintenance and infrastructure. Here they have failed. These existing infrastructures are considered boring and the assumption is made that with an ever-improving tax inflow, the money will "somehow" be there for these items for which they have assumed responsibility. 

The millions these scoundrels claim will materialize are from the taxes they hope to collect on the dollars spent outside of their money losing monuments. The astute politician can usually sidestep and avoid the responsibility for the losses, graft, mismanagement and expensive upkeep when their bad programs lead to the need for further tax dollars. 

We, in Tulsa County, are being treated to an exhibit, a demonstration, of the political art of, "viewing with alarm and pointing with pride." If 2025 passes, the pointing with pride will be a real challenge for our politicians. Vote "No" on 2025 and steal their thunder. 

Three strikes and they are out! Now there is something at which we can point with real deserved pride.

Roger Bloxham