SOUND OFF / May 12, 2011

Published 1:29 am Thursday, May 12, 2011

By The Daily News

How much are we conserving in Beaufort County with a recommended property-tax increase of 10 percent? Who is increasing things 10 percent during this economy?
On Tuesday’s front page: Another Bath boondoggle on the old school preservation. Here we have $2,000 from the national government with another 10,000 such communities throughout the United States. Now we have $20 million to add to our already maxed-out federal credit card. Why don’t we stop looking in the past and start looking to see whether we have a future.
Editor’s note: The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization.

Thank you, Steve Atkins, for your letter to the editor. That is the most Christian thing I have heard in my life. Praise Jesus!
Washington business owners need only to ride on the new U.S. Highway 17 to see why no one would exit and come into Washington. Not even seeing the river can cancel the view of overgrown marshland. Let’s get it cleaned up.
Raising the expenses of oil companies is a really smart way to move gasoline prices up, unfortunately. Countries, not companies, control 90 percent of world oil.
Gas prices are up, food prices are up, now the property taxes and sales tax are going to go up. How much more can we stand?

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