Parks, libraries and other public venues were closed to the public while citizens continued to get the tax bill to support those same facilities. Local governments required restaurants to continue to pay various licensing fees even when they were forbidden to be open for business. Taxpayers also took a hit by having to pay taxes and fees for services not received. Only now are we starting to comprehend that damage to child development, socialization and learning. If we had known in early 2020 what we now know, it is doubtful we would have shut down the economy as tightly as we did, and we certainly would have taken greater caution about our response to school closures and educating our children. While few Californians weathered the pandemic unscathed, taxpayers took a particularly heavy hit, getting stuck for the longterm cost of relief payments, bailouts and fraud while losing earnings during the “two weeks to flatten the curve” that turned into two years.
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