The REAL reason why taxes are so high

Our city has hired a company to call everyone and take a survey. No one asked my opinion about this. I mean, it might be nice if someone had asked since I do contribute to the paying for unending construction, the lights that turn on every morning in the public schools....

This is our tax dollars at work, people. The survey is asking how long you've lived in the city, why you choose to live here....

Uh, because my job is here, duh.

Anyway, I haven't taken the survey. Callers have attempted to get me to take the survey four times already. I tell each and every one that I am simply too busy because they all called at exactly the same time in the day: Between 5:30 and 6 pm. Which, as you may know, is about the time that our entire neighborhood smells of supper.

Come over and hang out in the front yard at this time of day. You'll smell pork chops and Hamburger Helper from every inch of our street. What a plan! Call everyone while their either cooking or eating dinner to take a survey!!


eBay does the same thing, and once again--no one even asked me about it. We buy and sell on eBay. I recently bought a CD (that skips) and Shawn recently bought a Gremlins resin model to satisfy his creative need (long story). Peer over to the right column and you can see what we sell. So we contribute to paying the share holders and yet no one asks us how to spend their money.

The other day I was, *sigh* cooking supper when a caller from eBay phoned me to tell me about "how to get ready for the Christmas season."

"I got the newsletter; is that what you're gonna tell me? The stuff that's in the newsletter? I also got the newsletter in email form..." I sighed.

Seller fees go up now and then because why? So this chap can tell me how to "make more money" during the holiday buying season--so eBay can make more money in retrospect.

I have an idea about how eBay could make more money AND lower our fees: Stop paying people to call me and tell me things that:

a. I already know
b. Will do no good
c. Are a complete waste of my time because it doesn't help me with the current situation of the smoke billowing out from the pan of food that's sitting on the oven
d. All of the above


So you see--the above idea also works for the city because they took a census about a year ago. And two years before that. I suppose some of the census takers were a bit nervous of the less safe neighborhoods so an outside company was hired to bug us all on the phone. I'd like to take this time to point out that our last census guy didn't even know how to work his city-issued laptop.

So here's my idea: STOP WASTING MONEY!!
Wow....try telling any corporation or government that.