By Greg Franklin
Special to The Globe
NEOSHO, Mo. —
How gullible do these local businesses think the citizens of Neosho are?
It is quite all right for these businesses to support an increase in property taxes. While they may state that this increase will affect them, it will, in truth, have very little impact upon them.
Most people are not ignorant of the fact that business owners include costs of doing business in the price of their product(s). Why should the citizens of Neosho pay for the mishandling of our city’s funds? I am aware that we have a deficit and that cuts will have to be made if this tax does not pass.
Perhaps it would do this city well to operate “leaner.” Having driven a concrete truck and delivered to this city, I have seen the wasteful spending of our city. I’m not trying to pick on any one department, but if what I saw was any indication of the way the rest of the departments operate, we would do well to cut out some “quantity” and set our sights on “quality.” Going into the past will do little to fix the problems we face unless we learn from it. As someone once said, the only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history.
Greg Franklin
Neosho
