How much more tax blood will Clark County commissioners and the Vancouver City Council squeeze from this depleted turnip?
Tax increases for library, schools, police, fire, bus service I’m not happy about. New taxes/fees for the Clark County amphitheater. Build a not-needed baseball park. Now the city will consider a $20 fee on vehicle licenses paying for road services. Over 25 years there’s been a fee for cleaning up Burnt Bridge Creek, still isn’t fixed. None of these increases are ever removed, just added to. They cut essential services, mental health and drug intervention, reduce jobs but not executive salaries, and continue to whine and moan because they can’t provide the same “services” as Portland does.
City council and county commissioner meetings are three-ring circuses and nothing gets done except to meet in executive sessions where they pass items with no general public vote. They hold endless public meetings saying “you don’t understand how this will benefit you.” Decisions were already made before those meetings and they ignore the will of “we the people.” Enough already.
Kathy Kelly
Vancouver
