People forget that elected officials are the taxpayers’ employees.
Professor Eisenstein reminds people to make their opinions heard at today’s Lake County Council meeting.
To keep elected officials under control, i.e. ensuring the people’s interests, especially when it came to taxes, the citizens would directly, i.e face-to-face, confront their neighbors, the elected officials. It was not uncommon for American citizens to picket and harass the elected official at their homes to demand explanation or a retraction, especially when it came to taxes. Remember the elected officials are the citizens’ neighbors and essentially their employees.
