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City Council disproportionally burdens the poor
Dear Editor,
There seems to be the belief by Royston King and the Dark Forces at City Hall that poor people deserve their poverty.
Why else would they have rounded up the poor vendors from downtown Georgetown and forced them into the infamous ‘Parliament View Mall’ an awful, cramped out of the way facility to vend their goods?
Why else would they impose a ‘Container Tax’ that would not be borne by the importers or the shipping companies but the poor consumer at the end of the line?
Why would they force pensioners and other poor home owners in Georgetown to pay an increase in general rates rather than have a proper valuation exercise done in the city to capture those monstrous buildings in the city owned by the wealthy who are not paying their fair share?
Why would he not pay poor municipal workers on time?
The City Council’s tax systems disproportionally burden the poor.
It seems as though this Town Clerk seems to have forgotten President Burnham’s maxim of the “De Small man is de real man” and that not so long ago, he, King was also a small man, when he was an Office Assistant at Inland Revenue Department.
As the famous local saying goes “never curse the bridge you crossed”
He needs to cut poor people some slack and not forget where he came from.
James Mc Onnell
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