Your Opinion: Taxing questions about fairness

Dear Editor:

Sharon Koechling-Burnett needs to explain her statement in the News Tribune that sales taxes are a "more fair tax."

Everything I have ever heard about sales tax is that they take a higher percentage of income from lower income people than higher income people. This is unfair.

The fire department proposal would permanently move support of city services from the people who can most afford it, property owners, to those who cannot, lower income people. Property taxes should be a percent of value of the property.

Sales taxes are on almost everything we purchase from telephones to utilities to food.

Property taxes are the fairest taxes available since income taxes are not allowed. Therefore people with the most expensive property do not want to pay their fair share of taxes, but desire to push them off on someone else. I understand there are legal limits to how much property taxes can increase.

Public safety advocates should talk to their representatives in the Legislature and sales tax advocates.

I hope Koechling-Burnett is correct and the sales tax is "going to be a hard sale."

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