Why vision never becomes reality in San Antonio
Vision:
Water, ground transportation infrastructure, City Council term limits, the need for a new or secondary airport, work force development, nurturing the manufacturing sector and biosciences and many other goals were listed by the task force.
The group acknowledged that new revenue would be needed to meet some of the goals and put ideas on the table for consideration, including “increased growth and impact fees.”
The ideas aren’t revolutionary, but the vision is comprehensive.
Reality:
Since then, city politicos have funneled more than $20 million to Quest.
But if history repeats itself and sometime in the next couple of years declining property values force City Hallers to cut fat and waste or hike taxes by a double-digit percent — and if they choose the latter and citizens revolt and start a rollback campaign …
How much do you want to bet that the words “Project Quest” never cross the lips of proponents of the double-digit increase as through crocodile tears they try to convince voters that they have been, for years, fiscally responsible?
Is “Project Quest” a worthy program, I don’t know. The reality is that it doesn’t matter. If Stinson couldn’t complain about Quest, he would find something else. For people like Roddey Stinson, there is never any good reason to raise taxes.
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