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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What benefit? Cleaner streets? More activities planned to draw people to the area? more collective marketing? Ya, sure they benefit, but they are playing a tax to cover the costs. I still don't get the complaint.[/quote]

Are you familiar with taxation without representation? [/quote]

Nonsense. The people who put this in place either are elected officials or subject to them. There’s no lack of representation. [/quote]

Rarely do we vest an unelected board with taxing authority. Rarer still is a board whose composition is determined by how much land someone owns or how much money they make. There are good reasons this is rare. The council’s own staff said the proposal was inequitable. Riemer pushed ahead anyway. [/quote]

Lots of unelected boards have financial authority. Here's one example: https://www.wsscwater.com/governance

Also, lots of unelected boards have their compositions based on various characteristics (including landownership).

You may disagree with the idea of a BID, but the reality is that there are lots of BIDs in the US. [/quote]

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