Whatta rip-off! I’m talking about paying our Columbus GA and School Board Property taxes with a “debit or credit card”.. either online or in person! If you use such a card, you are charged a “2.5% convenience fee”.   As a former retailer who used credit/debit card transactions, transaction fees for merchants were quite different for "debit" and "credit" acceptances. While the banks have more "risk" and monitoring factors on "credit cards", "debit cards" usage with user PIN numbers were only charged a "swipe fee" for about 25-cents versus the 2.25-2.75% for "Credit Card" usage.. So, if you paid property taxes of $1,000.00, you get charged $25.00 to use either a credit or debit card.. if you paid $5,000.00 in taxes, you get a $125.00 add-on “convenience” fee.. and it takes the same amount of time to process the transaction. In other words… it penalizes housing and business RENTERS because the property owners can just add the fee into what rent families and businesses pay in rent, and it also penalizes homeowners who cannot pass that 2.5 percent onto someone else.

There used to be contract agreements (maybe even LAWS) forbidding merchants from offering "cash discounts" for not using a credit card, and consumers could not be charged a processing/convenience fee to use their credit card.. Obviously, rules & laws have been changed via politics...

 Now, do you know how MUCH in "convenience fees" does the processor collect on card usages for City collected fees? I'm imagining it's quite substantial... and substantial election/re-election donations are made by the financial processing personnel....so… which bank is collecting these "convenience fees"? I’ll let you know when Mayor Skippy or a Councilor.. or two.. tell us…

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Online headline: "New Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Government Restrictions on Speech — Split on Kimmel’s Suspension" -- Hey ... ABC just tried to hide "Kibble&Bit**" being shut down for bad ratings by selling his irresponsible, insensitive comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Online headline: "Disney attendance plunges to all-time low for 2025 as visitors report 'ghost towns' at parks" -- Hmmmm....sounds just like ABC's ratings drops for it's news and "Jimmy Kibble&bit**"  shows. 

Hmmm... what would be even MORE interesting would be to COMPARE the attendance drops at the Disney Park in CA under Gov Newsom versus FL under Give DeSantis...wanna make any bets?

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Online headline: “Gavin Newsom: Kid Rock ‘Can’t Perform’ At Super Bowl” – Is the NFL gonna let Gruesome Newson dictate to them? Does not the NFL remember the backlash MLB got for pulling an ALL-STAR game out of Atlanta?

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Online headline: "This plantation’s 1860s slave quarters tell Georgia’s slowest freedom story" --  Hmmm ..you know, slavery is basically one group telling another group to do exactly..and only ... what they are told to do... and they'll be provided with minimally acceptable room, board, safety and healthcare in exchange... sounds just like the Socialist-DemoKrat agenda of the past, present, and future.

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Online REPEAT headline: "Columbus GA Council creates wish list for Georgia General Assembly to pass in 2026" --  How did Council miss these two IMPORTANT  needs: 1 - banning the speed trap cameras, and 2 - getting local elections moved to the November voting date so more people would vote.

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WTVM-TV 9 online headline: "Columbus GA Police Department reports 28 arrests, 220 charges in property crimes for September" -- Hmmm. but where are the current HOMICIDE numbers! The Columbus GA Police Department bragged about a drop through June, but huge July and August numbers aren't being discussed.

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Online headline: "Female Georgia Army Veteran Discusses What She Faced in the Military Amidst Pete Hegseth’s New Policies, ‘That Meeting Set the Military Back Decades" --  Good grief! She just made Hegseth's new policy GREAT! Liberals want things both ways... they feel it's fair for men to play sports as.. and ,,. with women, yet feel it's not fair for military women to have to be equal with the men.

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Online headline: "Chuck Schumer slams GOP's claim that Democrats want to give healthcare to illegals as an 'effing lie" --  Hmmm ... the headline writer must be dyslexic... it said Schumer called the Republican facts an "effing lie", but in actuality, it was really another "F" for lying"  by Schumer.

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Online headline: "As shutdown ripples through Georgia, voters consider who to blame" --  It's only liberals..in media and politics .. who even are concerned about 'the shut down" BY Senate DemoKrats ...The properly informed GA voters KNOW that no federal employee will not get paid once the Continuing Resolution gets approved, and the properly informed GA  voters KNOW there will be no real inconvenience... just a lot of liberal blather, and the informed GA voters KNOW it's an issue caused by DemoKrats.... including BOTH of OUR Senators..  🚽 Ossoff and Warn👿ck.