Gainesville Town Hall

On January 24th, 2010 the Gainesville Sun ran my Letter to the Editor (link) about the budgetary deficit and their ideas for how to meet that deficit. I felt the need to post my un-edited version because I felt a lot of valid points were lost:

The Gainesville City Commission recently met to address the 5.6 million dollar revenue deficit now due in 2010.

Gainesville city government has established an interesting cycle of proposing and implementing new programs that yield multi-million dollar spending deficits, year after year. According to the Commission, these deficits can only be remedied by raising taxes and creating new fees. continue reading »