{"id":6048,"date":"2017-06-21T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:54:41","slug":"opinion-insanity-equals-tax-increase-in-county-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/06\/21\/opinion-insanity-equals-tax-increase-in-county-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion &#8211; Insanity equals Tax Increase in County Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Steve Ferry]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You have all heard the joke about the definition of insanity. \u00a0Doing something over and over and expecting a different outcome. \u00a0Welcome to El Dorado County. \u00a0We are getting ready for budget hearings and finding out very quickly that for this county to stay solvent they are going to raise taxes or cut services. \u00a0Does that sound familiar? \u00a0Is there another way? \u00a0Yes!!!<\/p>\n<p>It is at least appropriate to get bids from private providers to see if a savings is really possible. \u00a0Let\u2019s think about several of the services paid for by the county. \u00a0Some of these may already be run by the private sector, but humor me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Food preparation for county recipients.<br \/>\n2. \u00a0Privatization of the Planning Department<br \/>\n3. \u00a0Privatization of the Library<br \/>\n4. \u00a0Privatization of Vector Control<br \/>\n5. \u00a0Contract for Cemetery Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just click on the\u00a0<a>www.edcgov.us\/Government\/Departments.aspx<\/a>\u00a0and let you imagination go. \u00a0The county management team should figure out which of these departments could better serve the public if it were managed by private industry. \u00a0Remember, there are cities in our country that are totally run by the private sector\u00a0<a>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f8qFvo2qJOU<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Every line item in the El Dorado County budget should have a bid number for outsourcing the service to a private provider so that we can know what we are missing\u2026 \u00a0What do you think? \u00a0Will we just put up with RAISING TAXES???&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ferry] You have all heard the joke about the definition of insanity. \u00a0Doing something over and over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}