ACC Ballot Proposal a Perversion

Dear Editor,
    The ACC board of trustees slipped onto the May 7 ballot what can only be labeled a perversion of democracy. Community college taxing districts are built on school districts. There are three areas inside the Austin city limits that belong to other school districts, districts that are not part of the ACC taxing district. Those three small areas are about to be swamped by a vote allowing everyone currently paying ACC's tax to extend that tax to cover those three areas. It is a basic tenet of American democracy that only those facing a tax should be allowed to vote on that tax. I believe that was one of the principles upon which we rebelled. ACC's sleazy backdoor effort to expand their tax district makes a mockery of the democratic process. And their only response to that is to repeat, in mechanical fashion, that it's for our own good. The obvious arrogance of that comment aside, it doesn't address the issue. I live in a MUD and pay the highest property taxes in Austin. How about we hold a vote out here to extend our tax to Dr. Mink. Oh, she'll get to vote on it, too. It's at least as fair as ACC's proposal.