Too many feel entitled to your hard earned money.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean feels he's entitled to increase the property tax by 13% AND increase spending by over 6% this year.

All at a time when the local unemployment rate is at 6.6%!

Too many hard-working families and small businesses cannot make ends meet and Nashville Metro government wants to add to that burden by thirteen percent.

That is unconscionable.

The media has picked up this story, and AFP-TN's efforts have been mentioned by:

MSNBC
NBC 4
CBS 5

Dear Councilmember Phil Claiborne,

Elected officials have a responsibility to those they are elected to serve.

They have a responsibility to listen to their constituents, to work in the best interest of the community and to be an effective steward of taxpayer dollars.

Unfortunately, Metro Councilmember Claiborne, you have failed in the most basic responsibility: to be civil.

Recently a number of Nashvillians contacted you expressing their opposition to Mayor Dean's 53-cent property tax increase. The communications were respectful and focused on the policy.

Unfortunately, the folks who took the time to contact you on an important matter facing the Metro received a derisive, wholly unacceptable reply.

Below is one Nashvillians response from your email address:

From: Phil Claiborne ---@bellsouth.net
To: ---@bellsouth.net