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Originally Posted by the urban politician
So every time the city spends money downtown, we have to hear this whining. What amount of spending downtown is acceptable, then?
And regarding property taxes, they will go up anyway, and it's actually because of these bloated pensions for unnecessary city and state employees that it's going up. Have you even bothered to read the news for the past 3 years? I don't mind spending money to spruce up the Riverwalk, and $10M is not excessive.
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Teachers to educate the next generation of our city's citizens are "unnecessary", but a new walking path for the richest area of the entire city is what we should be worried about?
I would be perfectly fine never spending another single dime on the Loop. It does not need it when our other neighborhoods have such massive pressing concerns and our city has such a massive shortfall in both budget and accumulated debt repayments. This is not a massive pressing concern. It is a colossal misplaced priority given everything else going on.
If you have $100,000 in student loan debt, you dont go out buying $30 cocktails and Michelin restaurant meals every weekend. You dedicate yourself to scrimping in every single aspect of your life and getting your financial situation under control. If you take your attitude I guess youre right, the debt will continue to go up...