Higher Taxes the Wrong Answer, Would Hurt Businesses
Editor,
Higher tax rates yield lower tax revenues because small and very small business owners are “maxed-out” now.
Raising taxes will force more into closing, moving out of state, into insolvency or bankruptcy. If leaders want to improve local economic conditions, they should repeal ordinances, rules, regulations, etc., and cancel taxes and fees and assessments that have make SBC the small business killing fields.
Biker museum? How about free enterprise private sector transportation, old western towns where the transcontinental railroad ended? Extol virtues of private-sector transportation, and why it is superior to Socialist public sector boondoggle waste.
No new taxes and fees until our leaders stop wasting tax dollars on Socialist transit buses (98.6 percent of seats are transported empty).
Joe Thompson, Tres Pinos
Wildlife Program is for the Good of the County
Editor,
I read with interest the letter of Mrs. James Appenzeller about how “taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize” the proposed hiring of a wildlife trapper.
Like everyone else, no one has taken the time to get all of the facts about this program. It is not a program for a “few” farmers. It is for the good of the county as well as everyone who cares about their safety and that of their animals.
Why doesn’t anyone want to call the county agriculture commissioner to get the correct facts? Why does everyone want to “shoot” from the hip and worry about his or her tax dollar? If it could be parceled out for every citizen of San Benito County the price would surely surprise you. Then if each individual had to fork over 50 cents or $1 towards this program, I don’t think that there would be the “cry” of “my tax dollars” being spent for a “few.” The supervisors were correct in approving this program.
Yes, being a lifelong resident of San Benito County and having raised my family there, I do know a little about what is happening with the feelings of people that feel “trapping” is cruel. I did it for my whole high school years and used the steel-jawed traps. No one ever complained in those days.
I hope that Mrs. Appenzeller can sleep better when she finds out “she ” does not have to “pay ” all of her tax dollars in this program.
Robert Graves, Soulsbyville
