Letter to the Editor:

I thought I would switch sides on the tax vote and start helping those that want to sock us deeper in debt. I will offer some tips to help us get a bond and ppel passed.

First- have the vote in March. Too many people can get out and about in November. You must have the vote in March if you hope to sneak it past the farmers and old people in Tama County, then pray for bad weather. Bad weather means a definite win for more taxes. Bad weather means the old fogies can’t get out of their houses and the farmers can’t get to town. Mud and ice are our friends! The irony will be that the roads their taxes are supporting will be so bad they can’t get to town to keep us from voting more taxes on to them!!!! If you can stymie the farmer vote and old fogey vote, it’s a sure win.

Next- act like you are exhausting all options. We must pretend we are actually considering the IJH as a school, or remodelling the old one, but behind closed doors we all know that we won’t make an effort to make it work. Who cares if the IJH is a multi-multi million dollar facility begging for use, we want a new building!!!! Not some used facility, but people will expect us to try to make it work, so we need to at least pretend we tried.

Next- act like we care about people’s opinions. Send out a post card pretending to get their opinion, but really it will be a campaign card filled with our side of the issue, we will sneakily integrate our position into their thinking all the while making them think we care about their opinions!

Ha, it’s a simple ploy, but it works well. We won’t let them know we already have lawyers, bond agencies, and architects hired. If they knew we had everything in place and are drawing up blueprints before we asked them their “opinion” it might let the cat out of the bag that their “opinion” is actually meaningless, because we’re doing it anyway!! Ha! Our “opinion” survey is really just a loophole for us to exploit and use school money to campaign for a yes vote! We need to take advantage of easily swayed voters, we need to tell them it’s for the kids, and for the future. Who cares if it’s actually socking their kids in debt?

Finally, we must do everything we can to make them forget about the past. Forget the 7 million we just spent on radios. Forget the 6 million we just spent on the high school. Forget the millions of dollars we owe on the elementary. Under no circumstances can we let them see the debt we are already in.

Basically property taxes is like an unlimited credit card, who cares what we already have charged to the card when there is no limit? The farmers, old people and small businesses are too lame to organize themselves against us. We want it, we deserve it. The best way for us here in Tama County to develop our economy is to keep raising property taxes!! Who cares that we are an ag economy? We need to act like we’re Polk County, or Marshall or Linn or BlackHawk or Johnson Counties. We don’t need to be proud of our ag heritage and act like an ag county, we need to pine away at being a metropolis, and if it takes bullying taxes on the farmers, I say let’s do it. There’s no one to stop us.

Adam Todd

Rural Tama