This is Houston…not Chicago
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Bill King says he wants to give some neighborhoods tax money to do whatever they want with it. That is a misguided idea.
The Chicago style neighborhood bosses we already have would just love such a fund to manage. That is the kind of logic that is letting a couple of un-elected bureaucrats in Uptown try to spend $200 million on a bus boondoggle.
The last thing we need to do is line the pockets of a select few. That’s not back to basics. That’s like throwing salt in
the open fiscal wound at Houston City Hall.
We have allowed more than $500 million to sit in the bank accounts of a couple of politically protected neighborhoods. That is money that could fix our streets, provide more police, and address flooding.
“We don’t need neighborhood slush funds. We don’t need higher taxes. And we don’t need to adopt Chicago-style neighborhood bosses,” says Ben Hall. “Everyone benefits if we move the entire city forward together, not financially divide the city as suggested by Mr. King. We can do better!”
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