on liars and damned liars

There's a big hullabaloo in the Gazoo this a.m. about the Public Safety mill levy. The article points out how we don't have available reserves as the anti-tax people claim the city does (I use we because I am a citizen of this city), they are primarily capital assets which, if we were to sell them (my point and not the city elected and appointed leaders) we would wind up paying some private person the cost of the services plus a profit while he pays his employes a minimum wage and builds a big house in Ironwood or outside the city limits. What I don't understand about the anti-tax, anti-tax people is why they think it is all a big conspiracy and everyone is lying to them. Is that how they would do it if they were in power?