Letter to the Editor
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to rents landlords may compensate
profits by raising rents. Such
raises may only approximate $40
to $65 a year per dwelling renting
now from $110 to $150 monthly.
But, since rents and living ex
penses are already exorbitant here,
added taxes won’t be attractive to
anyone let alone tourists!
The paving of all Kodiak streets
should definitely be undertaken
immediately and all at once. But
NOT as Deveau suggests, “by ex
tending the city sales tax of 3%
to residential rents.” People have
paid taxes here for too many years
while conditions rarely and barely
improve and too few tangible re
sults from these accumulated
revenues. There are city sales tax
es (on food, gas and nearly -ill
things but medicines), state in
come taxes, real estate taxes and
school taxes collected for this city
and state. Also on Kodiak, where
all streets are corrugated cow
paths, there’s an extra charge for
gas of 8c per gallon for ROAD
TAXES! Why, then, must rentals
be retaxed? Where are revenues
going and what, if anything, are
they accomplishing here?
Mr. Deveau wants a community
swimming pool AND a marine
aquarium! How can this be sanely
proposed in light of the critical
water shortage?
This same mayor candidate
wants it shown “that Kodiak has
the highest per capita income in
the U.S.” This claim is enticing but,
like most statistics, must show re
lated components for proper per
spective. To correctly evaluate this
statistic of Kodiak’s high income
per capita we need, for proportion
al importance, to know Kodiak’s
average cost of living per capita.
When the latter statistic is also
shown then the former “highest
income” statistic isn’t at all sen
sational Or exploitable.
While viewing politics — Sen.
Bartlett’s “all out fight” against
Navy over bread buying is alarm
ing. Non-patronization of Naugh
tons’, or any other business, is an
American right. This freedom of
choice is a major part of our sys
tem of free enterprising. Counter
action of that system, especially
from a U.S. Senator, is an antago
nistic blow to democracy. Bart
lett’s words have a heavy-handed,
dictatorial roar.
Sincerely,
Barbara E. Gentis
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