See what I mean? Mayor Frank Jackson wants to charge $9.25 a month, or $111 a year, for garbage pickup. Hitting the little guy because he’s afraid of tapping those who paid his campaign bills.
This is GARBAGE, Mayor Jackson! The same will go a weak-kneed City Council if it, as is likely, go along with it.
Is there a council member who has any regard for the people of Cleveland?
Jackson is trying to play a game by saying that he’s following a report of experts that are as bad as he is. See Henry Gomez’s story about Jackson’s tax your garbage GARBAGE: http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2009/11/cleveland_mayor_frank_jackson_7.html [1]
I wrote the other day how politicians don’t go to the well off or the rich for tax increase, they go to the little guy. Regressive tax upon regressive tax. This is a tax! I outlined tax after tax that slams the little guy while the wealthy enjoy low taxes. Please take a look: http://realneo.us/content/its-fair-taxes-honest-city-revenue-stupid [2]
Mayor Jackson has made a mistake that I hope wakes up some people in Cleveland. People should be angry. Damned angry.
Mayor Jackson, you can’t even pick up the garbage with the high, unjust taxes paid in Cleveland. This is a new low.
Jackson is turning out to be just another bad Cleveland mayor. A caretaker of the city for the wealthy.
He’s the mayor of no good ideas. He’s the mayor of no ideas. He’s the mayor of allowing what is BAD to be what is.
If Jackson wants this tax, Council and the People of Cleveland should tell him: Put it on the ballot. Let the taxpayers vote!
Links:
[1] http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2009/11/cleveland_mayor_frank_jackson_7.html
[2] http://realneo.us/content/its-fair-taxes-honest-city-revenue-stupid
[3] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/jackson-shows-himself-conventional-cleveland-mayor
[4] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/roldo-bartimole-0
[5] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/jacobs-ratner-fight-continues-issue-3-vote