Syracuse Trying to Tax Closed Catholic Churches for the First Time

Here's an option:

Statewide, consolidate and simplify all the nearly 10,000 "local" governments (schools, fire districts, water & sewer & lighting districts, town & village governments, etc..) to the county level. Set up local volunteer boards to advise the county on how best to provide services your hometown.

Abolish the Property Tax - it is unfair and there are obviously too many loopholes.

Raise the state sales tax to 5% and the County sales tax to 5%. NO exemptions, either. If you or your "organization" consume taxable goods, you pay tax. No special interests, no good deals, just a tax to run a simplified government structure. If the counties can't run with 10% of consumer goods being taxed, reduce spending or raise the tax rate - NO SPECIAL INTERESTS!

With 11% unemployment and 50% of properties off the tax rolls, the rest of us are footing too much of the bill when our revenues are generated from income and property taxes.

Simplify, simplify, simplify!

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” —Thomas Jefferson

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."

--Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations, 1774

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