Opinion

Sales tax fair

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Dear Editor,

To start, I would like to say that I, as a McCook city resident and home owner, do think it's fair to send the air base judgment to the home owners only.

I believe it would be fair to induce a sales tax for the fact that when non city home owners go shopping they would be helping to pay for the water problem also. (On) the fact that out-of-towners are throwing a fit about it, you can't tell me that they don't drink the water or use the restroom or drive on the city streets when they are doing their business in McCook.

If they have a problem with it, then go shop somewhere else. With the price of gas skyrocketing, it just doesn't seem like very good judgment on their part if it's out of their way to do it that way, but I believe that would be the fairest way to handle it.

Everybody from out of town must think that we (city residents) had a say-so in what happened with the water problem, but they had just as much say as we did.

Also, people need to understand that our current City Council will be hit just as hard as we are, so people need to give them a break.

In closing I would like to say please support our volunteers, local and abroad.

God bless them all. thank you .

Sincerely

Kevin Manley

McCook

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