Letter: Suggests alternative sources for property tax

Letter: Suggests alternative sources for property tax



Publication Date: 02/12/08


Editor: I've read carefully the alternative sources for property tax put forward recently by County Commission Chairman Tom Manuel. Each of his ideas (four options) is either a tax levy or a tax increase. I find it interesting that many members of local government are attempting to punish the voters for exercising their right to vote for a decrease in property tax. I am committed to providing solutions to problems like he states. How about this? As you know, private industry confronts issues similar to this each day and they take actions similar to the following suggestions:

* More efficient management of existing assets

* Across-the-board reductions in compensation

* Reductions in staff, layoffs

* Elimination of unnecessary expenditures

* Basic austerity programs

It is time that government at every level comes home to their constituents; after all, government employees' pay comes from the paychecks of hard-working framers, roofers, doctors, nurses, etc.

I am certain Manuel was looking for input from a concerned voter.

Wayne Dawson

St. Augustine


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