To the editor:
The problem is, it is far easier to increase taxes, than to keep existing tax levels within reason.
Much of this 测别补谤鈥檚 tax increase is claimed to be due to the new police services building, and will undoubtedly result in a tax hike in next 测别补谤鈥檚 taxes, and that of the following years.
This is not a simple tax increase. It is a percentage increase based on last 测别补谤鈥檚 increase.
Next year will no doubt see another percentage increase based on this 测别补谤鈥檚 increase. In other words, an escalating tax, on a tax, on a tax!
Council stated additional funding is needed to deal with 碍别濒辞飞苍补鈥檚 growing population. Nonsense!
A growing population automatically results in an increasing tax base.
It has been claimed as a result of our growing population, six new officers are required.
In fact, the increased tax dollars paid by 碍别濒辞飞苍补鈥檚 rapidly increasing population is what will pay for expansion of police and other services.
The reality is that those yearly tax increases leave most of us with less money each year.
If this 测别补谤鈥檚 proposed 鈥渕颈苍辞谤鈥� 4.4 per cent tax increase is repeated for the next six years, taxes will have increased by a whopping 26 per cent.
滨迟鈥檚 time 麻豆精选 started living within its means. Money 诲辞别蝉苍鈥檛 grow on trees!
Robert Wilson, 麻豆精选
