Sweet talk on taxes
Dear Editor,
I am amazed and appalled at the audacity of the City Council and the city manager taking away the rights of the people and spending money with no regard as to who has to pay the bills.
Every time I read of the City Council they are changing the rules so they don't have to be accountable to the people and justify the spending and added taxation the good people of McCook.
I am sorry, but every dollar the city collects and spends is tax money paid by the people they serve.
The justification they use for all of this is unbelievable. The idea that it is all right because everyone else is doing it makes it OK is outrageous.
The phone tax the mobile phone tax the tax -- yes it is a tax for someone to cut your tree down, is not for the protection of the people, it is so they have more money to spend at your expense, and I assure you to get your tree cut down, it will cost you more and it will cost at least twice the normal cost before the fee just because they had to pay it.
The great people of McCook, if you don't come together now and send your city manger packing and get a hold of your council, the great city you know now will become a ghost town. Their sweet-talking around the tax issue is nothing more than lying and trying to con the people they were elected to represent. The council needs to be reminded who elected them, and that they put their pants on just like everyone else.
The slogan says "shop local, shop McCook" -- with the way they are adding taxes, North Platte is looking closer all the time.
Don Neel,
McCook, Nebraska