Letters: AWOL on S.L. tax hike

Published: Friday, Jan. 4 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Summary

The Salt Lake County tax increase hearing was a farce.

We pay our so-called councilmen or servants to attend a hearing on the issue, scheduled by them. Several apparently don't want to hear. Mayor Peter Carroon and councilmen Jim Bradley and Michael Jensen didn't attend. Jensen reportedly receives $179,000 per year from taxpayers, which requires that 150 households must pay $100 per month year-round for him to hear — and he doesn't bother to show.

Of the taxpayers I heard, more than 75 percent opposed the 16.5 percent tax increase. The vote was postponed to accommodate the absent councilmen. Really, they should have no vote. I salute those who voted "no." Those who voted "yes" will cause people to lose their homes and fund fitness centers.

Vance Bodily

Kearns

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lost in DC

West Jordan, UT

GZE,
what's YOUR limit? How high do YOU want taxes to be on your home?

But the amount of the tax is not necessarily the issues. Nice attempt at obfuscation, though.

The real issues is the utter disdain for their More..

9:01 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

Yes this reeks of a political ploy.

7:53 a.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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1conservative

WEST VALLEY CITY, UT

The budget hearings were not so much a farce as they were "business as usual".

I've attended several county budget hearings, and several city ones also. Yes, the elected reps. pretty much have decided BEFORE the budget More..

1:45 p.m. Jan. 4, 2013
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