It must be exhausting coming up with new ways to slam Measure Q.

The latest that some folks are having a cow over is the fact the city is going to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 million in Measure Q tax receipts annually for 15 years or so to build the new $92 million police station.

Nobody said the city was going to bond to build the station, they say.

The interest rates are too high, they say.

The construction costs are outrageous, they say.

The city is spending money like a drunken sailor, they say.

They’re not going to help pay for it so they are going to shop out of town and buy their next from a non-Manteca dealer, they say.

They’re having enough cows that Clint Eastwood on his best day playing Rowdy Yates in the TV western classic “Rawhide” would collapse from exhaustion trying to round them all up.

So many wild assertions, where does one start?

The lightning rod for all perceived failings in Manteca, Mayor Gary Singh, made it clear every time he had a Q&A about Measure Q leading up to the election that the city’s game plan was to bond to build not just the police station, but other projects possibly as well that could be paid off within the 20-year time frame of the three-quarter cent sales tax.

Yes, the borrowing rate for bonds are in the neighborhood of 6 percent.

But as Councilman Charlie Halford points out the obvious, the city will just refinance when rates go down.

And guess what? The city has been down this path before.

There were sewer bonds 30 to 40 years ago that the city sold at higher rates and repeatedly refinanced at lower rates when the opportunities arose.

And before anyone has a cow, each time they are refinanced the length of the bonds weren’t extended making the cash savings real and substantial.

As for construction costs being outrageous, what’s new?

It’s a 46,100 square-foot police station that needs to be secure and withstand an earthquake, not a backyard storage shed from Home Depot.

If the dollar amount is giving someone a cow, perhaps they might want to gather five or so people in a room that are older than 60 and ask them what they paid for their first home.

You’re likely to find that the least expensive new vehicle on the lot at either Cabral Motors, Manteca Ford, or Kia Country costs more than the first homes of more than a few older residents in Manteca.

The charge Manteca is somehow channeling Sacramento, Congress, and the ghost of Tammy Faye Baker on a shopping spree combined is laughable.

Not only are they doing the fiscally prudent thing by structuring bonds to pay them off before the sales tax sunsets so it doesn’t threaten the general fund, but they are pursuing a course where the balance of the Measure Q revenues won’t be committed to reoccurring costs.

Yes, there is the question of the nine firefighters that were hired.

But if economic growth and community facility districts being imposed on new growth to fund police and fire personnel don’t absorb the payroll costs of the 9 new firefighters within 19 years, there is a fallback position.

The 25-year room tax share with Great Wolf crafted by fiscally prudent individuals that served on the council — Steve DeBrum, Willie Weatherford, Debby Moorhead, John Harris, and Vince Hernandez — ends at the same time as the sales tax. It will more than cover the payroll costs in constant 2026 dollars.

If Manteca Q revolts you so much that you want to pump even more $6 a gallon gasoline to shop out of town to avoid having to pay the additional Measure Q sales tax, you’d better dine outside the city limits as well. Prepared food is taxable.

Go ahead and buy your next car in Modesto, Tracy, Stockton, or anywhere else in California.

State law for going on 40 years requires buyers to pay the sales tax rate in the jurisdiction where the vehicle will be garaged.

Measure Q is now generating almost $17 million a year.

It has already allowed the city to play catch up by providing police and fire with reliable vehicles to respond to calls while at the same time making it possible to build reserves for future — and timely — vehicle replacements.

Measure Q has also helped pay for other needs. It will provide a much needed police station. And it will do much, much more.

All of it from pennies, not from bloated property tax bills milked from people who either own — or rent — shelter.

As for the non-stop bellowing, it’s just part of being part of Cow-lifornia that not only is the No. 1 dairy state but is home to lot of folks that having cows about everything that happens here has become second nature.