This is one of these situations where you say to yourself surely it can’t be:

Every meeting has to have a comic interlude, and at this meeting it was provided by a group from the College Hill Neighborhood Association who complained because their taxes had been lowered. During the budget process, four residents of College Hill came to the meeting and complained about the huge fund balance the College Hill Neighborhood Association had, and the fact that the neighborhood association wasn’t spending the money but that the 5 cent tax was just going into a bank account. The council lowered the tax rate for that district to 1 cent and said at the time that they could always raise it next year.

Hey, whatever. I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about people being able to afford more taxes. I also understand the neighborhood association’s complaint about being left out of the process.

But somehow I’m have trouble buying the ‘taxation without representation’ argument put forth by one neighborhood resident.