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Sharp right on with tax break challenges and more letters to the editors

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Sharp right on with tax break challenges

Tax breaks should not be given without significant public benefit. They should not be indiscriminately passed out to the well-heeled and well-lawyered with no resulting public benefit.

With all of the good publicity Chattanooga has recently received, there should not be a widespread perception that tax break decisions are based on cronyism and the fact that the administration simply does not understand the consequences.

Helen Burns Sharp should be given an expression of gratitude for having the spine to stand up and point out the obvious.

H. Graham Swafford Jr.