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Please budget our money carefully

Published 12:03am Friday, August 10, 2012

If you’ve got an extra pair of scissors, now may be a good time to donate them to your Adams County and City of Natchez leaders.

It may not be the most wonderful time of the year for the men and women charged with guarding our taxpayer money, but it’s certainly the most important time.

It’s budget season.

The county kicked things off Thursday morning with the first of many budget meetings. The city will soon follow suit.

On behalf of the taxpayers — and as taxpayers ourselves — we urge both boards to be diligent and detailed in their budget work.

Please examine every line item and question every departmental cost.

It takes money to run a government, we know, but we’ve trusted our leaders to make sure it takes the least amount of money possible.

Budgets aren’t just tight at the federal, state and local level; they are tight in the homes of Adams County residents. To think that the money of a mom and pop that may be struggling to put food on the table could be wasted on unnecessary governmental purchases is heart-wrenching.

Our elected leaders have a big, tough job. Yet, the people have trusted them to do it, so they must follow through.

To the decision-makers, please question everything and hang on to each dime like it was your last.

Do those things, and Adams County residents will be proud.

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  • Anonymous

    There have been comments on here before about the necessity of funding the arts.  I tend to agree with the side of the argument that supported a couple of years startup money to get them on their feet, then pull the rug out from under those feet – they should be self supporting if there is a demand for that activity.  Some of those on the list are long overdue.  We are trying to run a GOVERNMENT here, not a foundation.

  • Anonymous

     I don’t think the taxpayers have any business funding “the arts”.  The arts are in the horrible shape that they are prickly because anyone one who can apply for a grant is now an “artist”.  No tax dollars for hacks to sit around and get high while making sophomoric socio-political statements and referring to their random nonsense as “art”.  The talentless leeches can go to work like the rest of us.Now, if we are talking tourist attractions, that is another animal altogether.  A blues museum or something like that is as much history and culture as art.  If such a thing were to be assisted in startup by the taxpayer it should be from historical preservation or economic development funds rather than art funding.

  • Anonymous

    Another example of buying votes at taxpayer expense, similar to election year paving loans?

  • http://www.natchezdemocrat.com khakirat

    I still insist that the BOS illegally gave money to folks that they shouldn’t have and possibly the Attorney General of Ms. might could straight this matter up for us taxpayers for this is a disgrace to steal taxpayers money for such as this!! We sure need to do some recalls!!

  • Anonymous

    Favors for the politically connected.  Pretty much the same thing.  My point was that government funding ruins art by flooding the art world with talentless hacks who are little more than welfare recipients who piddle at arts and crafts.

  • Anonymous

    I tend to agree with that observation, and give some pedophiles an outlet for their misbehavior.

  • Anonymous

    The budget should provide for vital services first then see what is left. The items listed in the article should be at end of budgeting, if at all. We wonder why the BOS have to take out loans. They don’t have a clue about running a government .

  • Anonymous

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