Sometimes the faint of heart should go last. However, let me give you an analogy about a challenge that I have.
I have to buy a fire truck to replace one that's 35 years old. The new truck can lift a fireman 100 feet in the air to service a hotel that's eight stories high. It's going to cost my community a million dollars. We have to really bargain. It costs $1.5 million. We're going to get it for a million by buying a second-hand demo. It's going to raise our taxes. We're going to have to finance it over a 25-year period, so it's going to cost us a lot in finance charges. I was lucky this year, in that I was acclaimed mayor. I don't have to run on that as a political platform, and all the candidates who are running for council are using that as a platform. Unfortunately, it may not buy us the truck we need, and it won't solve the tax problem for the city.
Ultimately, my tax solution is ten hotels that are going to be four stories high. You can't have those unless you have a fire truck that can take people off the top of them. I'm not a politician. I don't belong to any parties. It's a real challenge to everybody, and I just don't have deep enough pockets or tend to be that smart.