And the Prices Keep Going Up

That's exactly why the Council has to raise taxes. There's not enough revenue coming in from property owners since the economic crisis began.Foreclosures were the result of people getting into home ownership when they couldn't pay their mortgages for a variety of reasons.Some were getting qualified by bank hired slave "signers"  to sign loans, at minimum wage. The banks were "cooking the books" and selling these bundled mortgages to investors.Nobody went to jail.Nobody had to pay back the ill-gotten funds to mortgagors.Our bankers were the cause of this problem.Our bankers are still running the city with their agents of choice...attorneys.Nobody wants to get involved with these yellow-bellied bankers and their assassin lawyers.The Council is part of this scheme, and have handsomely lined their pockets from it.It's the well that keeps on giving.Each Council member plays good-cop-bad-cop.Most non-profits,and private public/government funding is as crooked as the St.Johns River.Most churches are a part of this non-profit bamboozle under the name of god,or charity.It's very profitable.Until the public grows a pair and stops paying,electing,and jumping on the credit band-wagon this will not stop.