Panel needs vote on tax freeze
Attention seniors: About three and a half years ago, 85 percent of voters approved property tax freeze for seniors, yet our commissioners have used all kinds of excuses not to implement it to date, but sure will keep funding the failed school systems where 1 in 3 drop out of school.
It took Knoxville, Nashville and nine counties and many others two months to adopt Constitution Amendment 2. Talk to your commissioner and ask them if they don't, you will vote them out of office.
In 2008 Mr. Ramsey said the commission should make a decision before the start of the next fiscal year on July 1, 2008. Commissioner Richard Casavant opposed the property tax freeze. Check and see how many commissioners are affiliated with the school system, like Kenny Smith who wants to take Curtis Adams' place. This will let you know why they oppose the amendment. Let them know seniors also have powers by voting them out of office. And don't let them put the property tax relief income so low almost no one will qualify.
FRANK LALA
Smith the only one who makes sense
Voters ought to be watching the congressional race here with interest.
Candidates who talk big about going to Washington to fight for the working man make me laugh when at home they've done just the opposite.
Chuck Fleischmann is a collections attorney who shuts businesses down and gets rich.
Tim Gobble ran for sheriff on cutting spending and then sued his county for more money. Another attorney worked in D.C., but came to Tennessee and has done nothing to stand for small government.
I have watched Robin Smith from a distance and know one thing. She's the only one who's making sense on cutting spending and taking on lawmakers who "feather their nest." Candidly, the last thing we need is another attorney or an incumbent looking for a paycheck.
JEAN JOHNSON
Hixson
Game chickens forced to fight
A letter to the editor (March 23) maintains that cockfighting is not a crime. Well, the fact that people are arrested for doing it proves that it is.
The letter complains that police even confiscate money from spectators that aren't fighting. I doubt that they are there to enjoy conversation on classical music. It maintains that seized gamecocks are killed. I'd say that this is because they are now too violent to keep. I suppose it'd be more humane to let them kill each other for entertainment.
The writer states that it is in the nature of game chickens to fight. Well, I think they got that way by selective breeding and men holding them and shoving them in each other's faces to rile them has a lot to do with it. This has little to do with nature.
I have a modest proposal for those who enjoy blood sports such as cockfighting, dog fighting and fox hunting. Let's place them in an arena with various weapons like in gladiatorial days and allow them to destroy each other. Why should they have to experience the action vicariously?
TERENCE HOUSMAN
Hixson