Here’s a letter to the editor in today’s Chronicle:
A tax to fill coffers
If the city of Houston is broke, then why not just say so and stop coming up with all these ways to collect additional revenue for the city?
Mayor Bill White ran on the campaign promise that he would not raise taxes — and he hasn’t, but he has found ways to raise revenue for the city at the expense of taxpayers. Why not just tell everyone that the city is broke and raise the city sales tax? That way, everyone would pay their fair share.
MARTHA HERNANDEZ
Houston
We agree. Mayor White should come out and sell Houstonians on the need to raise revenue. Stealth taxes are unfair and often, I would argue, disproportionately affect those least able to afford them.
