Tired of supporting
building causesMount Vernon tax payers. Once again, the City has doled out $50,000 in tax dollars to help support someone with plenty of their own money that requested a hand out for an uptown business property. The property in question is the First-on-first building (Formerly the Sing a long bar). Said $50k was to help remove the dilapidated building to the south end of the property. This property was bought for $200k (Sing-a-long bar and the separate parcel comprising the building behind it) according to Linn County Assessors Records. Now the new owners are trying to sell the bare ground where the dilapidated building sat for $129,000.
I am sure they will reimburse the City and us taxpayers the $50,000 at closing.
Tired of handouts for businesses. Tired of supporting everyone’s feel good cause. Tired of tax dollars being wasted, period. If you want to buy, fix up and resell a building, fine. Write the check. If you want to support some cause, fine, write the check. But quit coming to the pool of tax dollars to fund your wish lists…
Keith Huebner
Mount Vernon
Letter to editor Aug. 31
August 31, 2023