In her opinion piece on Aug. 25, Mayor Romero sees a regressive sales taxes as the solution to the city’s budget problem. It was her go-to in 2022 when she had no other solution for our streets, so pushed a sales tax. Now she’s asking us to up the sales tax to a total of 9.2%. These taxes hurt small businesses as consumers buy less or buy outside the city limits, and they hurt the poor who are least able to travel or bear the extra cost. Romero is not a progressive politician looking to protect the poorest of us all. Instead, on a $2.3 billion budget her solution to a 1.2% shortfall is to increase taxes. Instead of finding the $27 million through reducing spending or spurring economic development, she tells us it’s too much to overcome, and we need more regressive taxation. I will vote “no” on adding another burden to those least able to afford it.
Cheryl Kohout
East side
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