Where is competent efficient government? Local governments spend a small fortune to reappraise our homes every few years and then hold a gun to our head if the homeowner can't afford to pay for their run away expenses. If the homeowner can't pay they seize the home from under him and sell it. We have absolutely no control of how they spend our money.

There is a FORTUNE spent on collecting property taxes. When you add the expense to collect our property tax money (cost of blanket property tax appraisers, the town tax collector, tax assessor, the cost of the office space, town cars, legal fees to the town lawyer for property tax appeals…. etc. and add it all together, it makes more sense to simply raise taxes with in increase in sales tax and/or income tax.

Politicians nowadays have the mindset that they have to come up with a bill or law they want passed to get elected. Instead they should point with pride to all the unnecessary expenses, jobs and bureaucratic overhead they got rid of.

We need politicians of a culture that says "NO!" to extra-ordinary expenses. Obvious expenses and savings abound. And then there are the bureaucratic perks such as the 20-year service and retire on a pension civil service contracts while the average American has to work 40 or more years before they get the chance to kick back. Or the over-the-top health and welfare benefits that the private sector simply can not afford.