This time, it's Shaker Heights, not Cleveland Heights.
http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2011/06/plastic_bag_fee_would_help_cit.html
Mark Cassell has the gall to call this an "out of the box" solution. New taxes, out of the box? What planet is this guy from? This is what's known as a consumption tax, and it's regressive. That means it hits lower and middle income people the hardest.
It's all very easy to call for a new tax when you live in a $300,000+ home in Shaker Heights as Mr. Cassell does. It wouldn't be so easy for people who have to pay those fees. And NEWS FLASH, some of us use those plastic bags to hold our recyclables.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Another stupid letter from a stupid Heightster
Good morning. Check this letter out and try not to choak on your cereal.
http://www.cleveland.com/sun/all/index.ssf/2011/05/keep_cleveland_heights_clean_b.html
First of all, the section of Oakwood that's to contain Oakwood Commons in NOT in Cleveland Heights, it's in South Euclid. G. Michael Bowen must be either an idiot or smoking some of that northwestern pot to have forgotten his basic geography. Then again, he did go to Heights' crappy schools, so that could explain it.
ONCE AGAIN: If the Oakwood land is not rezoned, it's going to be turned into housing. It's NOT going to become a park. Housing is worse for the environment than retail: more use of water, more fertilized lawns. Housing will also cost more by the city to maintain: South Euclid will pay for trash pickup and road maintenance. If it's retail, the business pays for trash pickup and the landowner pays for maintenance. There will also be income taxes paid on the salaries there. No one with the money to turn it into a park is interested in buying the land. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Fran and her cronies are selling a bridge to nowhere, and South Euclid taxpayers will end up with the bill!
http://www.cleveland.com/sun/all/index.ssf/2011/05/keep_cleveland_heights_clean_b.html
First of all, the section of Oakwood that's to contain Oakwood Commons in NOT in Cleveland Heights, it's in South Euclid. G. Michael Bowen must be either an idiot or smoking some of that northwestern pot to have forgotten his basic geography. Then again, he did go to Heights' crappy schools, so that could explain it.
ONCE AGAIN: If the Oakwood land is not rezoned, it's going to be turned into housing. It's NOT going to become a park. Housing is worse for the environment than retail: more use of water, more fertilized lawns. Housing will also cost more by the city to maintain: South Euclid will pay for trash pickup and road maintenance. If it's retail, the business pays for trash pickup and the landowner pays for maintenance. There will also be income taxes paid on the salaries there. No one with the money to turn it into a park is interested in buying the land. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Fran and her cronies are selling a bridge to nowhere, and South Euclid taxpayers will end up with the bill!
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