Jackson Slams the Little Guy, Avoids a Fair Tax
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
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://www.clevelandleader.com/node/11962
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!
Comments
does frank jackson wear a bad rug or what?talk about garbage,he should get that dead rat off his head and throw it out.
Did it ever occur to the citizens of Cleveland that they are personally responsible for the services they enjoy, like water, electricity, sewer, and refuse removal? Sure, rich people have a lot of money, and they earned it by selling things that people want, which as far as I can tell is still legal in this country.
The problems are not that rich people have money, it's that politicians pervert the relationship between classes via the tax code and do so to engineer hatred for the 'rich' in order to gain support for taxing them and paying for services for the 'poor' on the backs of the rich, which is the most effective way ever devised for the politician to remain in power. It works because poor, lazy and unemployable people outnumber 'rich' people by a hundred to one, and that represents a lot of votes by 'looters' looking for a handout.
Personal responsibility has gone the way of buggy whips in this country, and it's not my job to pay for your services, sorry. If you don't want or can't pay for the services, find another way than taking my money at the hand of government. Here's just one possibility: Get a JOB and earn some money.
Raise your hand if you work for a poor person. Nobody? Hmmm. That must mean that you work for the 'wealthy', assuming you actually work for a living. If you don't work f or a living, you are living off the government on money that I was forced to give them. Now that's not fair if you want to talk about fairness. Your ineptitude or bad luck does not translate to my responsibility, however I have charity and grace to a degree...
The most wealthy company in the world is Exxon. They make a profit of almost 3% on what they sell. In my business, I make over 60% profit on each product I sell, and I gross under 150,000 a year. My customers are joyous to have the low prices that I actually charge, so it's a good business for is all. Thanks to people like the citizens of Cleveland that think the rich should pay for their trash removal, let me just say that you are a wart on society.
I pay nearly 50% in federal taxes, and if you count state and local and sales taxes, nearly 65%. The 'poor' or 'little guy' would freak out if they had to pay those kind of punitive taxes. Thanks to socialist tendencies in the population and in government, mine are incredibly high so those of the 'poor' are incredibly low.
If you don't understand the true role and situation of the 'rich', you should hold your criticism until you do. I have been both rich and poor, and understand both quite well, so stop with the false support of the 'little guy' and the hatred of the 'rich'. When YOU can hire people and have to ensure that the company you own does well enough to pay the payroll, and the taxes and the operating cost and cost of goods sold, and all the other stuff we have to pay, then YOU can criticize me if you can still find something that businesses are doing wrong.
Remember that jobs are not a 'right'. You have a right to seek a job, but not a right to have one given to you. Your only right is freedom and security from foreign enemies. After that, you're either self sufficient or living off the grace of those who can succeed. And grace only goes so far for those that continue to depend on it.