Local Democrats Keep Raising Our Taxes

Here we go again, the Democrats seem all too eager to raise our local taxes. Over the course of the last few years our former Mayor, John Fernandez, and the Democrat controlled City spent more than it was taking in. Recently Mayor Mark Kruzan and the City Council managed to push an excess levy request through the State House to compensate for their inability to live within their means. Now Peggy Welch and Mark Kruzan have teamed up to saddle the local taxpayers with yet another tax to help pay for their spending habits. This latest tax will come in the form of a food and beverage tax that is being sold to the public as an obscure tax that will hardly be noticed by the average citizen, yeah right! This mentality of “tax them and we can spend” has got to stop! For many years the Democrats have been in control of the City Government and now, with this past election, they have taken control of the County Government. It is painfully obvious to me that at this point we can only expect more of the same. Hopefully the Republican controlled House and our Governor will put a stop to all this nonsense. It reminds me of the quotation, “a million here and million there and before you know it your talking about real money”. Someday maybe local voters will wake up and smell the coffee, but meanwhile be aware that your coffee could soon cost just a little bit more thanks to these Democrats.