Letter: Sales tax increase

HARLAN MASON
HARLAN MASON
Letter: Sales tax increase

Harlan Mason
St. Augustine, FL

Dear Editor,

St. Johns Board of County Commission Chairperson Rachel Bennett and Administrator Michael Wanchick challenged citizens who oppose a sales tax increase to choose which county services to cut from the budget. This challenge is a clever way to frame the sales tax increase debate with the false assumption that there is no county waste.

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