Lubbock has a dirty little secret. While it seems like our low tax base and standard of living are the bomb-diggity, we have a huge debt and someday it's going to come due.

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Philip Lange
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Lubbock has more than a billion dollars in debt. Translating that into something you can understand, every Lubbock citizen owes a little under $6000.00.  How is that for a smack in the face? We've been living under the illusion that we're prosperous, all the while just putting bills in the strollers of our kids.

The idea of "conservative" government is a little nonsensical.  I don't like the idea of "liberal" government either. There needs to be the idea of "fiscally responsible" government. I hate to tell you this, but taxes are too low. Yeah, you can't really stand any more, but if you don't squeeze out a few bucks more every year, then your kids will be squeezing out tons more, or even looking at a collapse of services in the future.

Where does it go? Well I can't tell you that, and if I could I'd run for office myself and clean it up. Very few city workers are what I call "highly paid". If you visit any of our city owned buildings you can tell that they've seen better days. We also don't seem to have all of the road equipment that we need. I'm not really seeing any expenditures that were a giant waste of taxpayer cash. I think we just haven't been dealing with the reality of what it really takes to run a city. We've allowed "conservative" politicians to recite the "we're spending too much" mantra so much that people are no longer willing to pitch in what's needed.

 

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