What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy. A downtown arena, or the value of the peso? An indoor driving range, or the price of labor in China? A convention center hotel, or the military budget?
City Council thinks that they’re gods, but they’re not. City Council trying to control the El Paso economy is like eight fleas trying to drive an elephant.
The only thing they can do about the local economy is make it worse. By driving up property taxes. By hurting local businesses. By diminishing confidence in City Council.
Our City Council talks about shifting the tax burden from residential taxpayers to commercial property owners, but the way they try to do that is by providing commercial property owners with tax incentives, and by taking commercial properties off the tax rolls.
God help us.
I agree..high City Taxes are a big negative.
City Clownsul.
To show how arrogant and economically stupid the city council is, and has been, think of this. When the ball park was built, we demolished city hall, which was not on the tax rolls because it’s a municipal building. In it’s place, we get a ball park that’s NOT on the tax rolls, city council bought the Times building at above market value, this taking IT off the tax rolls. They then bought 6 other buildings to house different departments and took THOSE off. So we’ve basically gone from 1 building off tax rolls, to EIGHT!