Tax Hike Hypocrisy
Editor,
Shame on your Editorial Board for suggesting more suffocating, strangling, small business-killing taxes and fees and assessments. Isn’t the small business failure rate already too high? You expose a hypocritical philosophy claiming to support economic development while urging voters to support higher taxes.
This is the tenth anniversary of my legal memo to both Government Review councils of both Gilroy and SBC chambers of commerce, which I’ve sent to you several times during the past 10 years. I recommend that you read it and consider the consequences that I predicted, which have come true.
Nobody should support new taxes and fees and assessments until government eliminates wasteful spending and boondoggle sinkholes.
If City Council members are short on taxes to spend, then why did they vote to give $10 million to COG for repairs to State Highway 25 beyond the city and RDA boundaries? When Californians approved billions of dollars of state bonds for highway and infrastructure improvements, why didn’t the City Council vote to rescind their gift to COG?
I thought the purpose of an RDA was to benefit businesses within district boundaries?
The higher taxes and fees and assessments go, then the less tax revenue government has because more small businesses, which are the backbone of SBC’s economy, go out of business, insolvent, bankrupt or just plain out of the state as the newspaper has reported over and over.
It is time to stop the hypocrisy at the Free Lance and wake up and smell the coffee.
Joseph P. Thompson
Tres Pinos
Lacking Sunnyslope Coverage
Editor,
I find it interesting that an approximate one-hour power outage June 14 in Hollister has a whole article written about it and the causes, yet the outage the week before in the Sunnyslope area lasting about four hours had no mention. We don’t even know why we had no power for such a long time.
Ruth Erickson
Hollister
