Tax and spend. Great plan. The only time you hear a democrat talk cuts is when they strongarm voters to raise taxes. But the cuts are always in protective services, education, and social security. Not scare tactics? Bull. It's how democrats herd their sheep. He mentions cutting government like its a bad, horrible thing? Go for it dude. Nothing he said is new, different, or attention getting. Why? It is the democrat playbook word for word. Obama and his ilk have worn those pages thin. The fact is the tax base in memphis is shrinking very fast. From the failed economic policies that keep rolling out of washington, to the mere fact that since the Herenton reign Memphis is a dirty, crumbling, rascist city. People trying to better themselves have left in large numbers. To compensate memphis has steadily raised its taxes and annexed as far as the eye can see. People just move further away. Memphis doesn't need more taxes. It needs working people to come back. To do that it will take smart leadership, a conservative look at how it does business and spends money, and a repeal of ignorant, narrow minded laws set forth by the so called city council. For that to happen people have to realize that the social policies of the new democratic party sound good, but never deliver and cannot be sustained, and its economic policies are in fact socialist in design and have failed all around the world. Voters have to make the change happen with new leadership. Wharton should call Scott Walker and ask for advice. It'd be a start.

Stop saying "cuts in public safety". Cut where you have to. I don't feel unsafe. Sorry.

That boy, Flinn, needs to own up to the 5th option....& the only one that is working; is to let Memphis wither on the vine; i.e....."dry up"....it's pretty much a dead town already.....SMH......

What the PEOPLE need to vote on is new council members (& I DO mean 'members')......