Womack Dissents As Delco Passes Crushing Tax Hike — Delaware County (Pa) Council, last night, Dec. 11, passed its budget with its crushing and expected 23.8 percent tax hike on property owners.
This means that the average homeowner will paying $184.69 more to fund things like a DEI department and a mismanaged prison.
The vote was 4-1. The courageous dissenter was Councilman Richard Womack.
Delco’s operating budget will increase $37.7 million going from $358,825,036 to $396,576,506.
Council has been baldly lying about the need for the explosive hike. It claimed it was due to inflation and that the previous Republican administration had not raised taxes for a dozen years.
Media GOP Chairman Michael Straw, at the budget’s first reading, Dec. 4, pointed out that the expensive Health Department, DEI Department, free yoga classes and a vending machine with condoms were all choices. None were mandates.
Council majority treats spending — and government in general — as though they were still spoiled, rich, private college students with daddy’s dough always there for them, and that while consequences didn’t matter, peer approval certainly did.
Womack Dissents As Delco Passes Crushing Tax Hike
