So the mayor presented a pleasant package to us taxpayers of a zero increase in taxes but then “borrowed” from the city’s savings and increased taxation on hydro, water, etc. all the while expecting us to swallow it, hook, line and sinker.
He also said we’d have 200-plus jobs added to our economy, but failed to forecast how many jobs are being lost due to the addition of these big-box stores (Super Wal-Mart is next). Still glad you have your discount Chinese goods and your roomy, well-lit aisles? Because your taxes are going up.
Seeing as I fail to fathom how a person making $10.25 an hour at 28 hours a week can afford a $400,000 house, plus the taxes that go with it, of course. Oh, and that farce of democracy on the waterfront revitalization project? Well, it’s a good thing council listened to our demands, eh? Only a million so far. Let’s see, a couple million more, a dozen more trees ripped out, and we’re at option one, aren’t we?
Ah, but it looks up! Thanks to our nice weather, all these older folks have flocked to Penticton, so we can all just get jobs taking advantage… I mean, care of them in our soon-to-be-improved hospital. Ah, Penticton, the place to stay forever, don’t they say that about hell?
Monica Hoffman
Penticton
