City Offering Some Businesses Relief From Taxes, Regulation
City Offering Some Businesses Relief From Taxes, Regulation
Editor,
Can it be true? Has local government changed course?
Will we see small business friendly leaders reverse the fatal strategy of excessive taxes and fees, and burdensome regulations?
The announcement in the Nov. 30 Free Lance about the city’s ordinance to reduce obstacles, lessen costs and expenses for one kind of local small business is welcome step in the right direction for economic development.
Now that the City Council has given this hope to one business, what about the others who need the same relief?
Reduced taxes and fees, elimination of rules and regulations, and leveling the playing field is just what the doctor ordered for our struggling small-business and very small-business owners.
The promise of reduced regulatory burdens and lower taxes and fees in Gov. Wilson’s Regulatory Reform Roundtables (after three years of hearings around the state and his executive order mandating relief) never did fulfill the promise.
Deregulation backfired. Today we have more rules, regulations, statutes and ordinances that ever.
Cheers for the local government leaders who fight back, eliminating the barriers to business, trade, commerce and industry.
Let’s have more of it.
All our other business owners are just as entitled to the same relief that the council has bestowed in their new ordinance.
The more relief that they bring, then the more economic development we will see.
Joseph P. Thompson
Hollister
This Used to Be a Good Place, but Lately Things Have Changed
Editor,
There’s something I need to say about Hollister.
I have lived here for about 12 years. And for those most of those years it was a good town. Now it’s not. For the last two years things got messed up here.
We had a really good thing going at T.A.G. Paintball. And guess what, someone in the county had to mess it up! Why? Because they don’t want to see people do good.
You see I’ve never been homeless. And I’m not now, but I was displaced. There’s a difference between them. Now I have a something like a home. Or I did until you people took it away.
It seems that every time someone does good for us, you take it away and then go back and continue to give them a hard time.
It’s time you guys wake up. I’m not wrong about this. If there’s anyone out there who cares, give me a call (831) 537-3603.
David Baraby
Hollister
