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Local residents who speak out in support of Club Motorsports building their motorsports park in town almost uniformly articulate the position of “more tax revenue for the town from CMI, lower taxes for the rest of us”. Even if one accepts the premise that the additional revenue would be used for tax cuts (ha!) rather than to increase the funding of the local government schools and social programs, it is a shame that the town government has put families and businesses in the position of lobbying for “we’re getting abused with high property taxes, please let’s abuse more people and businesses so the burden on me will be slightly lessened”.

The root of the problem is government spending, and consequently, government taxation. There is no good reason Tamworth’s forcible seizure of your money needs to be double that of surrounding towns. Family homes and businesses do not exist to support the government with tax revenue, and Club Motorsports is not coming to town for the warm fuzzy feeling that taxation gives them; they are coming in spite of the onerous taxation, not because of it.

There are good reasons to support Club Motorsports:

1. You see their abuse and expense at the hands of the town government, and realize that the systems in place to do that to CMI are just as in place for you and your private property, subject to the whims of the various town boards.
2. More businesses = more customers = more economic activity = more jobs = better for everyone.
3. You like high-end sports cars, or blazing fast motorcycles and are looking forward to the convenience of a track nearby.
4. You think FOCUS members are a bunch of gray-haired, pot-smoking, tree-hugging flower children of the 60’s incapable of minding their own business who are hell bent on government control of pretty much everything and the old adage of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies.

…but increased revenue for the town from CMI should make you mad at your local government for abusing families and businesses through taxation, not grateful to spread the negative effects of government spending to another local business.