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in response 10 questions raiseu about the nature of the tax, Mayor Morehouse said that council felt that a business tax would be “Orwellian,” that it would make the income of local businesses public knowledge.
Mr. Reynolds added that “there is no way to adequately show a business tax as a cost to the customer. The (businesses’) only choice is to raise prices or absorb the tax. This is a tax on consumers - a luxury tax - and the law requires that it be shown (on receipts) as a tax.”
Fran Eldred commented that “You are being grossly unfair with your rhetoric. We all know exactly what is being done for the umpteenth time... if there were no Inn, where would the revenue be generated? It’s time to try to reach a decision to generate what you need on a fair basis.”
‘To tax to use as a base to enable you to borrow money to put the town in debt,” she added, “that stinks. If the town goes down the tubes in three months, it’s your own fault - for trying to get all from one.”
David Dickey, attorney for Patrick O’Connell and Reinhardt Lynch, owners of The Inn, said, “You are taking money from my client to fix the water, rather than take the money from the users . . . The mayor has been given the figures, you know what you’re doing . . . Government is greedy: it wants to tax and spend. If you broaden the tax base it creates people who say ‘Stop!’.”
Mr. Dickey presented figures which he said indicated that, with an
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