City of Scottsdale: GOING BROKE!!!!!
November 3, 2008 by Frank
Congratulations, City of Scottsdale, for getting what you deserve! The City is facing a massive revenue deficit of $35 million over the next 1-2 years – all in a relatively small suburb of Phoenix having only about 200,000 people (after you remove the skewed numbers of 85254 full of Phoenix residents stuck with a Scottsdale mailing address).
First we have the phony arrogant residents who went insane on credit this decade and now are all bankrupt, losing their McMansions to foreclosure, losing the Escalade and BMW to the repo man, etc. All these clowns are no longer going out to restaurants, bars, shopping, or buying/leasing cars. That’s a LOT of tax revenue to simply disappear. And let’s not forget the huge percentage of Scottsdale’s “rich” and “elite” who can’t afford their property taxes, let alone their mortgages.
Then we have the horribly corrupt police department which constantly makes illegal DUI stops and bogus DUI arrests to generate revenue. And let’s not forget the commie cameras all over the place to make easy money.
Then we have the corrupt City Hall and State that slaps huge hotel, car rental, and other taxes all over anyone and everyone who visits either for business or on vacation.
Oh and let’s not forget the petty, childish, immature neighborhood groups who oppose any and all development. Guess what: Anti-development insanity = economic failure.
Finally, a big thank you to the Scottsdale HOAs which operate like Hitler’s Gestapo, causing thousands upon thousands of people to choose to never live in an HOA neighborhood, which just about rules out any of the cleaner, safer neighborhoods in Scottsdale.
Very well done, Scottsdale, You got what you deserved!
I was in Scottsdale last Monday. There were much fewer cars on the roads (Shea, Raintree, Scottsdale) than even two months ago. The whole place is going
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Seems to me a lot of Scottsdale wealth was real estate-related or credit-driven – not good for the years to come.
The only people who are gong to make it through the hard times are people who live within or below their means and who have everything paid off.
Bling is so over with. For those of us with money, its “stealth wealth.” If you’ve got it, don’t advertise it.
MG
What happens when real estate appraisals and property taxes go down?
I see plenty of new Mercedes on Shea, and housing is as high as ever minus about 15%. You may be a few years mature. Wait until 2011 when the option ARM’s are resetting in mass.
I’m still waiting to see any meaningful price declines to buy. It’s like a glacier moving. Slow and boring.
Not to worry, they’ll just float some more bonds, and cut all social services for the poor and elderly.
Totally agree on the “stealth wealth.”
For several years, bling and flashy cars has been mocked in Scottsdale as the sign of a phony.
Now it’s increasingly happening everywhere, not just Scottsdale (and it’s cousin Las Vegas).
Burn, baby! Burn!
The mad scramble for dollars is on in the City of Scottsdale. See the socialists scurry to and fro as the threat of having to get a real job materializes in their pampered, delusional, rodent lives.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see the scowling face of these faceless bureaucrats as they get ticketed from the very same cameras they’ve enthroned on the highways to entrap the common man?
Then, again, City vehicles are exempt from having to pay those speeding fines, so they’re off Scott(sdale) free. How fricken’ convenient!
Uncle Joe Stalin, the Polituburo and the Nomenclatura ruling elite would be mighty proud…
Hill: “What happens when real estate appraisals and property taxes go down?”
Ans.: city income will decline and services would have to be cut. Usually the first in line is the city library – hours are reduced and acquisitions are pared down. Another would be staffing at city offices, particularly the Building/Planning Depts. Also the police: instead of 10 city police cars out on patrol there may be only 4.
Seems to me that if homeowner want reduced property taxes based upon a new, lower value, then that figure should be the value that the home is sold at as well.
Example: property is assessed by the county tax assessor at $43k but on the MLS its listed For Sale at $214k. Which figure should its value be: $43k or $214k??
The obvious answer would be $43k because that’s what the homeowner and assessor had the real value assessed.
MG
Another boom town gone bust in the west!
It looks like we’ll have to wait another few days before we watch Manross get ousted.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/2008/11/06/20081106sr-elexupdate1107ON.html
wow…El Jefe thank you for the link. I would say, from looking at Manross’ pic, that she’s had some work done: eyes (upper & lower bleph), fillers, botox, & possibly a facelift; definitely she colors her hair….and I would say she has that “leftist look*.”
*leftist look: a plasticy surgical look accompanied by a hard-boiled expression. Tech shoes/tech sandals/birkenstocks are often their footwear of choice. “Dress-up” wear consists of politically-correct flowy ethnic styles with in-your-face jewelry often made from wood, tiger-eye, jasper, coral, or turquoise – think Chico’s here. (lol)
Nothing fur and minimal synthetic unless its from North Face, Eddie Bauer, or Patagonia (Boomer-wear).
MG
Emerging Highway Gulag:
I simply cannot believe the amount of traffice speeding cameras going up all over the Phoenix valley.
Everywhere!
I-10: Check.
101: Check
I-17: Check
I-10: Check
North Valley: Check
Scottsdale: Of course
NW Valley: Check
Central Phoenix: Check.
Holy sh-t. We’re living in an emerging police state.
I didn’t vote to have my precious tax dollars spent on the 21st century HIghway Gulag.
Thanks Gov . Napolitano. Thanks for looking out for the legal taxpayer once again.
Not!
As if her defacto support of illegal aliens wasn’t enough…
Have no fear when Obama’s experiment in Owenism begins life will be like a nil nil soccer game. Everyone will be running around not accomplishing much but some will be cheerful because we will all be equal through wealth redistribution whether we want to be or not.lol
Notice on that page that utilities went up?
Water bill used to be ~$39….. now: $95
Electricity ~80….. now: $199
Found this on the msn.com website,
http://cityguides.msn.com/citylife/cityarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=12207435&page=0
It’s a bit off topic but I didn’t know where else to post it so here it is.
It reviews the Top 40 restaurants in America and guess how many Scottsdale restaurants made it into the Top 40?
How about a big fat Zero, none, zilch, nada,
None of the supposedly Scottsdale world class fine dining places made it.
No surprise here, I was visiting friends there about a year ago and we had dinner at what was touted as one of the top ten steak houses in the country and we just about gagged. When our friends asked us how we liked our dinner we politely said, “it’s not about the food or wine, it’s about the company of friends we keep”. I think we could’ve done better at the Sizzler or a Country Buffet.
Frank, this site rocks! I have watched the “decline” of Scottsdale happen before my eyes for the last 16-17 years. It seems like when, between the “upper east side of Manhattan” and the fake “affluent” (aka noveau riche) of the Bay Area and L.A. began to infect and settle over “the west’s most midwestern town”, the whole place went to hell.
Scottsdale has become a huge, over exaggerated farce thanks to the carpet bagging phonies who ruined it. It’s greed and mismanagement ever since Herb Drinkwater left (RIP) is coming to bite them back in the hind-side. On the bright side, perhaps the pending “crash” that’s happening will chase off some of these parasitic yo yo’s out of town to go suck the life out of somewhere else.
AZ reportedly facing $4.5 billion budget deficit next year–
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/01/05/daily56.html?ana=e_du_pub
Scottsdale government gets what they deserve because they are going broke? Sounds like this is the Scottsdale Police’s haters web-site. Most of the people on here must of gotten a DUI (For being a dumb-a$$ and drinking in the first place).
Illegal stops? If the stops are illegal, then your well educated attorney at Phillips and Associates can get you off the hook for DUI right? BTW as someone who has immediate family on the Scottsdale Police Department, I can ASSURE you there is no ‘quota’ for getting a certain amount of DUI or moving violations a month….If I was a cop I would not let someone drive off if I even THOUGHT they were slightly impaired (can you imagine the liability to not only the police department but to people driving on the road!)
The only thing I agree with….
“Oh and let’s not forget the petty, childish, immature neighborhood groups who oppose any and all development. Guess what: Anti-development insanity = economic failure.” Scottsdale politicians are HORRIBLE at keeping good business around…
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Anyone who can help with corrupt police.
I need help with the city of scottsdale police department. I am being arraigned in June for violating a court order. Not just once but 6 times.
Sounds bad right? However, I never violated any court order (everyone says that right?). Here is where it gets corrupt, i never spoke to any police officers from scottsdale on any of these matters and did not even know there were any police reports. third the investigating detective, Ryan McKinnon -never called me once- just turned these 6 police reports into the prosecutor. Since I never spoke to a City of Scottsdale Police Officer on these matters, I have to go pay for the police reports.
I am sure the fact I have HIV has nothing to do with the prejudice actions taken by the city of scottsdale. Did you know that when the police pull up anyones name with HIV that a bright yellow or red border goes around my information warning them. I have no criminal record but am being treated like one.
I now have to hire an attorney to defend something that never happened.