Dear Editor,
Why does the county want to tax plastic bags? The original
argument against plastic bags was that they were killing wildlife.
When that argument was proven false they switched arguments.
County’s proposed tax on plastic bags another burden for business
Dear Editor,
Why does the county want to tax plastic bags? The original argument against plastic bags was that they were killing wildlife. When that argument was proven false they switched arguments.
Most people recycle plastic bags through normal garbage pickup. Charging 25 cents per bag is a TAX and requires a vote by the people. It is also one more hardship on the merchants. They would now have to keep records of bags sold and report to the county. The economy is in the tank, why add a burden to the taxpayers?
Keith C. De Filippis, San Jose
‘Bullet-in-the-brain train’ – when are we all going to wake up?
Dear Editor,
Jeers to proponents of California’s Bullet Train, who would rape taxpayers and bankrupt small business owners to create a Marxist-Leninist, job-killing Black Hole, which will require annual taxpayers’ subsidies between $1 and $4 billion. Don’t believe it when High Speed Rail Authority says that they’ll be “profitable” – that’s what Amtrak’s proponents said in 1970 during the debate in Congress on the creation of Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, socialist transit by railroad, just the opposite of America’s successful capitalist railroads).
Cheers to private-sector railroads like Union Pacific, which are creating jobs, paying taxes, saving fuel, lessening air pollution, and bolstering communities and economic development, just the opposite of Caltrain, Amtrak, and other VTA-type socialist-communist transit.
Jeers to the Bullet-in-the-Brain Train, using VTA’s Enron-style off-book accounting, deceiving taxpayers and voters, hiding massive deficits to cover waste the same way the VTA and other metropolitan planning organs of socialist government do.
Cheers to Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the other countries who de-nationalized their railroads in what the Wall Street Journal described as “The Privatization Revolution” during the last two decades.
What kind of welcome is Gilroy planning for the Bullet-in-the-Brain Train? When will we ever learn from history? Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the USSR?
Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy
Making our new library ‘green’ makes good sense for Gilroy
Dear Editor,
Make the library and any new buildings as “green” as possible. We put solar panels on our home in November 2007 and as of November 2008 (1 year) we have paid nothing for our electricity. That is a very good feeling. I would hope that the city council will reconsider.
Jacqui Holladay, Gilroy
