Geoff Larcom wishes that the
Geoff Larcom wishes that the Ann Arbor City Council would stop spending time passing resolutions against war with Iraq and on other non-local issues. Well, so does Ann Arbor Sucks. But Larcom’s reasoning is the most concrete proof we’ve seen of the entrenched landowning aristocracy in A2 we’ve always suspected exists. “I thought of this recently as I made out the check to pay the winter half of my property taxes,” he writes. “My thoughts were not on Iraq as I signed my name on that particular bottom line. The next time the council has the urge to debate global issues, important as they are on many levels, members should first picture city residents sending in those big tax checks.”
How about the younger city residents (or “students”), without whom it would be pets-or-meat time for Ann Arbor, sending in those big rent checks to live in buildings that aren’t quite up to Chicago slumlord standards? If it helps any, Ann Arbor Sucks was thinking about Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, not Iraq, when writing the last one.