As i've mentioned before it is budget time for the city of Eden Prairie. That means a whole lot of numbers, statistics, predictions, and some down right lies.
The current city council has three conservatives and two liberals. And, by use of the term "liberal" I do not mean to be pejorative. I just prefer that term to the nonsensical term "progressive," which liberals now seem to prefer. Progress towards what, exactly?
The liberals try to talk like conservatives as long as they can. Indeed, at last week's city council meeting all five members said they favored a 0% increase budget for 2011. But, when it came time to vote only two actually voted that way. (the story about the stray conservative who voted with the liberals is too complicated for this short post).
An argument sure to be heard as we move towards a final budget (last week's was only preliminary) will be that whatever spending increase the liberals support amounts only to a nominal amount per year per household. That statement will be factually correct--if you spread out a $2 million increase in our budget over 20,000 tax paying parcels in town the amount will be small. But, it's still $2 million.
As a country we got into trouble because we didn't ask what things cost; we asked what the monthly payment was. That's how people ended up buying cars, houses, and governments that they can't afford.
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