There They Go Again.

Dennis Redmon, representing the Thayer Community [*ahem*] Betterment Association, addressed the Thayer City Council at their meeting last night.

Once again, they want to put a sales tax increase on the ballot, to hire an economic developer for the city. He suggested November or April.

The Association also wants to do away with city real estate and personal property taxes and replace them with an additional sales tax.

The Council agreed to meet with the Chamber of Commerce and work out a ballot proposal to possibly place on the April ballot.

How many times do we have to tell these people "No"?

Dennis Redmon was on the radio this morning. I'll paraphrase what he said, but it was along the lines of "One way or another, we [the TCBA] are going to get an economic developer." Despite the fact that the majority of voters in Thayer don't want one. We like capitalism; we don't want to turn Thayer into a European-style socialist economy.

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P.S. If this does make it onto the ballot, I will simply defeat it again. In a perfect world, there would be nothing wrong with putting it on the ballot to let the voters decide. But as noted previously, I have seen the tactics of the pro-tax side. They are willing to break the rules to win. Not putting it on the ballot would deny them that opportunity.