Comments on: Town Council Fails to Trim Budget, Favors Borrowing https://capecharleswave.com/2013/05/town-council-fails-to-trim-budget-favors-borrowing/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Melvin W. Williams, Jr. CWO, USCG (Ret) https://capecharleswave.com/2013/05/town-council-fails-to-trim-budget-favors-borrowing/#comment-10895 Wed, 08 May 2013 15:29:10 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=6424#comment-10895 Raising taxes and raising hoops? Oh how absurd can one get? How can anyone with little to no income pay an increase in taxes — and who will this most greatly affect? Surely not the newcomers (outsiders who have the money) who now make up the town’s government, plus those few Cape Charles citizens whose families have run the town since the days of the town’s railroad and ferries. If there’s a failure to pay your taxes, you lose your property — and who buys your lost property? The ones with the money. Then that property becomes a venture investment for future development.

Members of the town council should totally focus on providing education and employment to the townspeople. If I have a good home and pay my taxes, some could go towards getting those hoops. Many minority home/property owners stand to lose a lot, so hold on to your home and property(s).

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