The mayor doesn’t like the B&O based on revenues. Why not base it on warehouse square footage – a simpler way of assessing tax?
The Chamber of Commerce wants to dictate terms favorable to it – and would really much prefer that homeowners, who are already under water in their mortgages, pay additional taxes instead of the businesses who tear up the roads with their big, heavy trucks.
It’s time for a unified stand by homeowners against unfair taxation. Businesses do the damage. They are responsible for the bill.
The City Council needs revenue. Stand up to the chamber and get the funds needed to repair the roads, refurbish parks and provide services. Make it a permanent tax so the city doesn’t have to come back to the homeowners every six years for more money.
We’re bled dry just trying to pay bills and stay in our homes.
Time for warehouse trucking firms to pay the piper.
– Sandra Gill
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