06-02-2003, 07:49 PM
the sales tax thing doesn't bother me so much. if anything i think it should've been the first thing they did, before making all the other cuts and stuff. people come to the city from all over just to go shopping, so i always thought it was kind of silly to not have sales tax on the stuff that tourists were spending money on. the rest of it all sucks though. i also heard they're cracking down on trash on the sidewalk and issuing a lot more fines to bars and restaurants who don't sweep up the cigarette butts often enough, and to people who put trash out that doesn't get picked up.
i understand he has to balance the budget, i just think that there are better ways to do it, or at least he could try to act a little more understanding about it. i dunno, the whole banning smoking thing was just a bad bad move that came at the worst possible time and i think compounds the dislike for the man that a lot of people have. it just seems like he's hitting the same group of people who are struggling over and over again.
incidentally, i heard somewhere that clinton was planning to run for mayor, did i make that up?
i understand he has to balance the budget, i just think that there are better ways to do it, or at least he could try to act a little more understanding about it. i dunno, the whole banning smoking thing was just a bad bad move that came at the worst possible time and i think compounds the dislike for the man that a lot of people have. it just seems like he's hitting the same group of people who are struggling over and over again.
incidentally, i heard somewhere that clinton was planning to run for mayor, did i make that up?