Madison360: Smart investment could be hard sell with voters - Which it SHOULD BE!

Can we afford giving MATC over a quarter of a billion dollars for expansion? The "initial" request for phase 1 is for $150 million but the full cost is over $300 million. We must ask are the new facilities really needed at such a cost and to such a lavish extent?

- Everyone in the City, County, State government wants to jump on the "LOW INTEREST" bandwagon to promote their agenda of spending citizens tax dollars.  Now is NOT a good time.  We have: too many unemployed, too many other costly taxes added to property taxes, the costs of the Edgewater and expanded TIF districts is not known yet, and personal income is down (or frozen) and the tax base is down - so - that means higher taxes for the working middle class.  Follow the money trail on my previous posts...

We need these questions answered: