Objects to tax dollars saving private property
Publication Date: 06/25/09
Editor: This is in regard to Monday's story, "Holding back the sea," about houses built on Old A1A.
I remember a story from my childhood of a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The winds blew and the sea rose and beat upon that house and it fell.
Today we have a different story. People build million-dollar houses on the sand. The winds blow and the sea rises and threaten those houses.
But, not once but three times, all the other taxpayers of St. Johns County pay many millions of dollars to protect those houses. And here is the irony, at least 90 percent of these taxpayers could not afford to even think of building a million-dollar house.
To make it even worse, the owner, who tries to protect his own property, is threatened with a citation.
I am not sure which is worse, that our leaders will take the money earned by the rich and give it to the non-working poor, or that they will take the money earned by the common person and give it to protect the property of the rich.
Wayne Curtis
St. Augustine
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