Editorials

What business wouldn’t like to have its business license tax reduced? Businesses, like individuals, would be only too happy to see a reduction in the local tax, a reduction that would put more money in their pockets.

But where would the city cut its budget to pay for the proposed $1 million tax cut? What specific programs or projects would have to be put on hold to accommodate an always politically popular tax cut?

City Councilmen Turner Perrow proposed the tax cut. He got some help from his fellow Republican Scott Garrett, but it was not enough. And for good reason. Neither could identify where the cuts would come from in the city budget. That, in the end, spelled defeat for the proposal.

Commonsense reigned over…

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