Will Tulsa County Allow Government To Override Private Business?

There is an election tomorrow to decide if the residents of Tulsa County in Oklahoma will approve an increase in their sales taxes to pay for development along the Arkansas River. The plan includes several low water dams to actually put WATER in the river, along with river parks, and retail development.

Now, that being said, here is an advertisement for that “plan” airing on TV the week leading up to the election. You tell me if this ad says “help us develop our river” or not:

Now let me break this bad boy down and give you my view of this ad.

Competing cities are voting YES for river development and are getting good jobs.

The closest city that could be considered ‘competing’ in any sense of the word would be Jenks, OK. Yes, they have a plan and will be developing on the river, but here’s the kicker. They are NOT using tax hikes to do so. The Jenks development is and will be funded by almost $1 Billion in private development funding. Any government involvement will be coming out of CURRENT budgets, not new ones. One KEY thing left out of the commercials and press conferences is that Tulsa County (notice they rarely ever say COUNTY) has not even begun a research plan with the Corps of Engineers to even see if their plan for the river will even get the green light to begin PLANNING the development. So vote yes and you’re sending your taxes to an account dedicated to a phantom project that could not even see the light of day. Sounds enticing doesn’t it?

NO, didn’t build Tulsa County.

This statement could be true about ANYTHING… BUT to claim that Tulsa County got where it is today because of people saying YES to every idea that could possibly progress the county is a fairy tale.

We won’t have another chance for a long, long time.

Wait… WHAT? Who says? Are you telling me that if the citizens of Tulsa County do not favor a regressive sales tax that we’re opting out of ALL development for 30 years or some crap? Come ON! You obviously think that we’re stupid if you think we can’t see through this BS.

Vote YES on Tuesday for good jobs for Tulsa and opportunity for all of us.

Read: We think Tulsa sucks and we want to force change via big government. If you vote NO… you think Tulsa sucks.

Too bad I can’t vote in THAT election… can you guess which way I would vote?