End of an Era

Besides after a revolutionary war in the late 1700s, when has the United States ever

decreased taxes?  Taxes, I think, are a reminder that us humans won’t ever reach a debt-free paradise.  To pay off bills, we working (and soon to be working) Americans are encouraged to work harder and be more diligent in our personal accounting.  Taxes are the antithesis of wise financial planning.

Taxes are when a majority rules in favor of forcing it’s populace to transfer from an individual’s net worth to the governing bodies net worth.  Collected for a governing body including but not limited to: hamlet, a village, a town, a county, a city, a state or a nation.

In the traditional form of a Constitutional Republic, the voters of the U.S. elect representatives.  These representatives adopt, amend, abolish laws based on a consensus of all collected votes.  The democracy lying within our nations traditions is the concept ‘majority rule’.  “majority rule’’ is misleading often times when extrapolated on a macro generalization of the US political arena.

Majority rules, yes, but the minority is protected through the pillars of federalism.

In the case of NYS A07020, the court will be the determinant factor; not a Governors signature; not the combined approval of the NYS assembly and the NYS senate.

According to NYS board of elections, there are 4866 voters in Hamilton COunty yet only 4778 residents.  With the exception of the Counties (9) Town supervisors, I am unaware of how 4856 (supervisors plus (1):  me)) feel regarding the County’s raising of it’s sales tax from 7 percent to 8 percent.

Increasingly complicating things, there are more voters than there are residents.  With 4041 of 4778 residents 18 or older, with 100 percent voter registration; we are still 825 over-voter registered.

1392 of 4778 are over 62 years of age.  4138-1392 is 2746: our 16-62 ‘working’ population. 4041-1392 is 2649: our 18-62 ‘working adult’ population.  

Of those employed:

128 are on the County Adminstration payroll; with a 2012 personnel budget of:$4831447.

195 are on the Towns/village (9 towns/1village) payroll: with a 2012 personnel budget of $5088895.

206 are on the Schools (7 schools) payroll: with a 2012 personnel budget of $8806209.

Those working for the county/town/village/schools accounts for 429 persons residing in or out of Hamilton County.

Collectively, the County/ the Towns and Village/ the Schools amass $18,726,631 of the County’s tax rolls.

These 429 persons accounting for $18,726,631 create a per capita income of $43,651 or $14437 more than the per capita income of $29,214.

29214*4778 is $139876632.  So if we divide $139876632 by the actual number of those within Hamilton County’s ‘working’ population of 2746 we come to $50938 per working resident of Hamilton County.

More exciting is this Census fact: the private nonfarm employment population in 2011 in Hamilton County was: 814 residents.

Zero of Hamilton County’s parcels are designated as agriculture; in effect there are 0 farm jobs (officially) within the County.

So 814 in the private sector and 429 in the public sector is: 1243 workers.  $139876632/1243 is $112539 per non public worker. 139876632-18726631(public personnel budget) is $121150001 for the 814 in the private sector or $148832 per private sector employee.  However 1243 public plus private workers only accounts for 45 percent of the Countys ‘working population’ count of 2746.

So, um, does Hamilton County have 55 percent unemployment? Or is it that 1503 residents seeking jobs?

Then we have the hiccups, like my mother who works for both the school and a restaurant; or my sister who works for the village, a restaurant and goes to Utica College undergrad full time.

My mother and my sister are part of the rule.  Our towns supervisor owns and runs a restaurant.  Wells’s town supervisor owns and runs a cable company.  Arietta’s town supervisor is the co owner of a furnace factory.  I’m the 28 year old, unemployed, outlier.