Malfeasance of the MTD

If one listens lately to the MTD board and Bill Volk and reads the letters to the editor of people who support the forced annexations of new areas into the MTD, all one hears about is fairness.  We all should pay a fair share of the cost of mass transit. 

But all the citizens of Lincolnshire Fields and Savoy want is the status quo.  And for over 25 years, the status quo has been "fair"   And if it hasn't been fair, than why hasn't the MTD done anything about it?  As a citizen of Urbana for over two decades, can I sue the MTD for failing to annex these areas earlier? 

My farcical comment here is to illustrate the point that this whole debate is not about fairness, except in the minds of a few people who believe fairness involves equal pain ( a typically liberal mindset that has taken over the minds of a few moderates around the community)  If it was about fairness, the MTD board would be talking about how they would expand their tax base and lower tax rates.  But they aren't saying that because they have no intention of doing that. 

What they do have the intention of doing is padding their already bloated budget.  They say that it has nothing to do with the trolley, but why else would they need all this money. 

Let's analyze this from a fiscal standpoint.

If the cost of servicing Savoy and Lincolnshire Fields is more than the tax revenue gotten, than the MTD is fiscally imprudent to do it and everyone in the district should be upset because it will raise costs for those already in the district.

If the cost of servicing Savoy and Lincolnshire Fiels is the same as the tax revenue recieved, than what is the point of the annexation?  The district would gain nothing and the residents would be hurt.

So obviously, the cost of servicing these new areas must be less than the revenue that will be gained.  If this is the case, which it obviously is, than why isn't the MTD talking about how they are going to lower all of our tax rates?  The answer is simple.  They aren't going to lower the tax rates of those of us already paying into the district because they are going to keep that money and use it for their own pet projects, whether it is junkets around the world, or the boondoggle "light rail" system. 

Those of us already in the MTD ought to be thankful to those who are curbing Volk's empire building, because giving more money to this bloated bureaucracy will do nothing to foster the needed reforms there.