Abramson's Budget

Sifting through the budget of Mayor Abramson raises some serious questions. As many of you know I have been fighting IPL for a longtime now due to harrassment and using that office for revenue for Abramson and cronies to abuse. According to the latest information IPL will get an increase of over 5% in funding and the revenues generated by IPL have increased significantly. Mainly at the expense of small business owners and helpless homeowners outside of Downtown Louisville and the East end.

Here is just a tiny part of ABRAMSON's budget!

1 - CODES & REGULATIONS - 5.6% INCREASE in budget

Why?

Especially since most of the other departments have budget decreases ...

Well, therein lies the "rest of the story."

So look at what's below for just IPL :
Source: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/94D23CC5-3C27-4579-9E0E-1C18C943CB63/0/RevenueEstimatesReceipts.pdf
LOOK at these lines:

IPL Civil Penalties - INCREASED from $690,862 in 2006-07 to $900,000 in 2007-08, a 30% INCREASE

Projected INCREASE to $940,000 in 2008-08, an additional INCREASE for 2-year TOTAL INCREASE of over 34%.

What's REALLY disturbing is that IPL will continue their harassment of citizens at these SAME LEVELS for the foreseeable future!!!

Citation Fee Revenues - INCREASED from $835,008 in 2006-07 to $1,820,000, a HUGE 118% INCREASE!!!

Projected to be $1,100,000 in 2008-09, which is still a HUGE INCREASEoverall of nearly 32% over the last 2 years. This HIGHER LEVEL of enforcement activity introduced in 2007 WILL CONTINUE thru 2009!!!

Remember the old line about COPS needing to make their "quota" by writing lots of tickets?

This budget clearly illustrates that line in ACTION courtesy of IPL!

The MetroCall 311 line is used for the express purpose of generating REVENUE by having one Neighbor turning in other Neighbors and then having IPL (& others) write "citations" that have hefty FINES and "Civil Penalties".

Divide and conquer? Neighbor against neighbor?

Recommendation: POST "NO TRESPASSING" SIGNS all around your property!

The US Courts have ruled that the ALL Government agencies MUST obtain a SEARCH WARRANT or (in the special case of Police officer activities) have "Probable Cause" to legally TRESPASS on properties that have NO TRESPASSING signs posted in clear view.

The absence of such signs indicate that the owner has implicitly approved such incursions by Government workers upon their land!

2 - ALSO, check this out:
Source: (Same as # 1 above)

Employee Withholdings - INCREASES from $207,290,000 in 2007-08 to $219,570,000 in 2008-09, a
nearly 6% INCREASE in ONE year and a nearly 11% INCREASE over the last 2 years!

Since Louisville is NOT experiencing any substantial job growth, this LOOKS LIKE a TAX INCREASE on the backs of ALL Louisville workers.

WHY? See Net Profits:

Net Profits - Net profits are the taxes generated by COMPANIES and business ventures that have a PROFIT.

Since 2006-07, the Net Profits taxes collected in 2007-08 WENT DOWN by nearly $6.5 million, a

DECREASE of nearly 13%!
WHY?

Small businesses in Louisville either aren't doing as well or have left Louisville for more "friendly" places like Southern Indiana, Bullitt Co., Oldham Co. ... the list goes on and on.

So, with LESS Net Profits taxes from Businesses, Abramson apparently wants to shift that burden onto the backs of those people who still have a job!

TARC is RECEIVING more than $52,000,000 in 2008-09 after receiving ZERO in 2007-08!

Source: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/05FE3696-666E-43E8-AF95-6AAE9258EF3E/0/AllFundsSummary.pdf

Many questions need to be asked and answered it would appear.