Marysville income-tax increase beaten

The vote was close but, in the end, the city's request for an income-tax increase lost by 104 votes yesterday, according to final, unofficial results.

[Robert]

Sounds like the people in Marysville who voted no in the levy don't care about their town or want it to be "their way". I lived in Marysville and thought it was a nice little town, maybe wont be now because the people who voted no just told the police, firefighters and court system that they don't care about them so that would make them not want to stay. The city offered a tour and I went on it just for curiositys sake and the need for new facilities was very apparent. Makes me wonder if the people who voted no didn't take the tour or had their mind made up about voting no and nothing could change their mind. Probably a majority were senior citizens who probably werent affected by the levy but voted no anyways even though the levy was very urgently needed.

[HipHop]

Good job Marysville. Had this thing passed the city would have been overrun with Van Jones and his re-distributionists and confiscate the wealth parasites setting up ACORN 'outreach' (into your wallet) centers. The Marxist manufacturing tsar would have further destroyed the Marysville economy and foreclosures would have increased a thousand fold. Then Valerie Jarret and her pals would have come in and scooped up all of the distressed properties and converted them to concentration camps using the money loaned to them by Goldman Sachs.

[Jim]

Marysville desperately needs to do something. The city has grown too large for the fire district they serve. Maybe its time to cut ties with surrounding townships and just focus on Marysville.

There have been a lot of tax increases, both from the city and mainly the school district, but this was a very important issue and this loss could jeopardize someone's life.

[Marysville Taxpayer]

Obviously, Robert from Georgia is employed. Since he is so much for improving Marysville's facilities, maybe he could start a donation drive. The city tried very hard to frighten the people, especially those in Mill Vally by saying that the fire departments would not be able to respond to their homes in time, because they are located on the other side of the tracks. The city spent in excess of $40,000 on their campaign to make "Marysville Safer". Most of the money came from developers who stood to profit from the tax increase. Once the economy gets back on it's feet, Marysville won't be hurting so much. Why would we give them a blank never ending check to spend when the rest of us are waiting for better times to do any improvements in our buildings. Get a grip and realize that their is more important things that a city could do to protect their citizens then to build showplaces for their employees. At least they still have jobs.

[Parasite Government]

If Marysville could not provide the services for all those areas, why annex an area that will not bring in enough tax revenue to support services to that area?

This annexation at all costs mentality model was followed by Columbus - is that who Marysville wants to "grow up" and become?

[Marysville Taxpayer too]

I have to cut back on what i spend in an economically challenging time. Why can't government get that mentality. We all need to make sacrifices or wait. We have lived this long with out a new fire station or police station. What;'s another year or two. Why can't we vote on just the expansions and not make it a permanent tax hike. One of the main reasons i moved to Marysville was the reasonable tax rates. Last year we saw our property tax increase for the schools. Now the income tax, which fortunately failed. Water/sewer and trash charges went up. Next year they will raise the sales tax and who knows the year after that they will tax us for the air we breathe.

[Unfairly Taxed]

I for one will not vote for any tax increase as long as I'm paying two city taxes! Granted it's my decision to live in Marysville and work in Columbus. But, Marysville had offered a tax credit when I moved there and "cancelled" it the very next year. My preference would be to live and work in Marysville but I can't convince my company to allow me to work from home or to move the office away from Columbus. So, I'm stuck paying two city taxes.

As long as Marysville continues to ignore all of us "bedroom community" residents, I am seriously considering moving out of Marysville and I would anticipate that others feel the same way. I used to tell people about Marysville being a great bedroom community but since the tax credit went away, I (unfortunately) haven't been promoting Marysville.

[ladyoh]

Robert wrote:

Sounds like the people in Marysville who voted no in the levy don't care about their town or want it to be "their way". I lived in Marysville and thought it was a nice little town, maybe wont be now because the people who voted no just told the police, firefighters and court system that they don't care about them so that would make them not want to stay. The city offered a tour and I went on it just for curiositys sake and the need for new facilities was very apparent. Makes me wonder if the people who voted no didn't take the tour or had their mind made up about voting no and nothing could change their mind. Probably a majority were senior citizens who probably werent affected by the levy but voted no anyways even though the levy was very urgently needed.

You don't live in Marysville but took the tour out of curiosity, and you wouldn't have been paying the tax increase. Interesting post, hard to find it credible tho.

[ladyoh]

Jim wrote:

Marysville desperately needs to do something. The city has grown too large for the fire district they serve. Maybe its time to cut ties with surrounding townships and just focus on Marysville.
There have been a lot of tax increases, both from the city and mainly the school district, but this was a very important issue and this loss could jeopardize someone's life.

All they have to do is put the increase in a levy for fire and police improvements only and it will pass. They are trying to steam roll their wants in with the needs and the citizens did not and will not go for it.

[Another M-ville taxpayer]

There are quite a few factors that came into this thing failing but I believe it was largely based on 2 things.
1. The majority of residents living in Marysville don’t work in Marysville. Plain and simple. Since Marysville did away with the tax credit it means those folks will have to witness their taxes going up more than we would like. Especially if you have the unfortunate luck to work in Columbus which hit transient workers with their tax increase.
2. The fear factor has caught up. The City Administration together with the School Board likes to play on the fear factor with residents. Back a couple of years ago we were told to vote on a school levy to get additional money from State to build new schools in Marysville. They told us the population was growing at such a rate they we would NEED these schools. What did the majority do? Passed the levy only to have the schools built and current existing schools closed down. Why? Because the population increase never happened like they threatened.
The residents are only going to pony up so much before they scream ENOUGH! Just get ready for it again folks as another new school levy is expected to be on the ballot in 2010

[Unfairly Taxed]

Another M-ville taxpayer wrote:

There are quite a few factors that came into this thing failing but I believe it was largely based on 2 things.
1. The majority of residents living in Marysville don’t work in Marysville. Plain and simple. Since Marysville did away with the tax credit it means those folks will have to witness their taxes going up more than we would like. Especially if you have the unfortunate luck to work in Columbus which hit transient workers with their tax increase.
2. The fear factor has caught up. The City Administration together with the School Board likes to play on the fear factor with residents. Back a couple of years ago we were told to vote on a school levy to get additional money from State to build new schools in Marysville. They told us the population was growing at such a rate they we would NEED these schools. What did the majority do? Passed the levy only to have the schools built and current existing schools closed down. Why? Because the population increase never happened like they threatened.
The residents are only going to pony up so much before they scream ENOUGH! Just get ready for it again folks as another new school levy is expected to be on the ballot in 2010

Don't forget that the income tax increase is going on the ballot again as well!