Call it what you want.

So as many of you who know me may well expect, I don't agree with council president Linda Krug on the fee to charge Duluth citizens for road repair.

You can call it a fee and say you are not raising tax's but a fee is a tax and a tax is a fee you must pay.

Linda Krug wants to charge a fee to improve Duluth roads, at least she seems to support this action.  The fee would be $5 to $8 dollars a month.  This would be 96 dollars a month or more if you are a small or large business owner, also if you own rental property.

We already pay taxes, roads should be included in that right?  If not then what do we pay taxes for?  To add a fee on top of this is wrong.

There are ways to pay for roads with out stretching the tax payers hard earned money.  Fact is you should use the taxes for there intent not some other project you want to do that is not essential or we can't afford to do right now.

Our tax money should be used on police, fire, roads,  and other infrastructure items such as sewer and bridges.  What our taxes should not go for, buying building to restore, pay employees, and other things like that.

It is frustrating that our mayor and city council look at adding fee's instead of looking what we have to work this out all the time.  We can't afford to pay more when there is less and less property on the tax roll. We have so many non-profits in our city that are not paying a dime towards roads they use and require to have to be open.

Perhaps you could charge the non-profits a small fee a year, 100 to 200 dollars and use this for roads.  This would include hospitals, groups, agency's, housing, and such.

We use to get money for the casino but right now are in a legal battle over that.  But we did not use most of the money for roads any way.  Maybe it is a good thing we stopped receiving it, if we can't use it for it's intent them maybe we should not get it.  They would rob that to pay or use on projects or saliers for other city employees, among other things as well.

Here is a link to that story: www.northlandsnewscenter.com .    


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