In today's guest editorial David A. Hayford of Oshkosh Investments, Inc. argued that we need to have our supervisors vote no on the sales tax proposal:
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/opinion/stories/opinion_22612588.shtml
Well, Mr. Hayford himself is one reason we need to implement the tax. I hope everyone noted the footnote:
David A. Hayford lives in Appleton and is the CFO of Oshkosh Investments, Inc.
Mr. Hayford currently uses county services (roads, quality of life, police protection, etc) to have a business that profits him personally, yet he pays no taxes whatsoever into the county coffers himself.
Why? Right now the county is funded through property tax funds, and his house is in Outagamie County.
That is one of the main points of the tax - Mr. Hayford says that: "It is $14 million additional tax coming from the pocketbooks of Winnebago County taxpayers. Winnebago County taxpayers, do you want to assume that burden?" This is where he is being misleading - it is not from Winnebago County taxpayers, almost half of that tax will be collected from people that live outside of Winnebago County.
People like Mr. Hayford.
That is why he is against the tax, he wants to make a profit through his business in Winnebago County, but does not want to pay to cover county services.
I think Mr. Hayford said it best himself when he said:
The Golden Rule of politics is: "Them's that got the gold makes the rules."
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:RpiLBkPXBFwJ:www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/opinion_18702175.shtml+David+Hayford+Appleton&hl=en
He wants to take personal profit from Winnebago County, but not help care for it's residents. I hope that all that gold he's got will sooth his consciencence.
4 comments:
Jef, David Hayford may own commercial property in Oshkosh where his business is located. In that case he most assuredly is paying property taxes in this county. But even if he doesn't own property here, you can bet you rear-end he is paying something toward our taxes through his rent payment on his business location. Landlords always figure their taxes into how uch rent they're going to charge. They would be fools not to.
In that case, then he will also be saving from the property tax reduction either way
He may or may not save. Mark Harris himself has said not everyone will pay less. But anyone who already pays taxes in this county has a right to weigh in on this discussion regardless of whether they live here or not. By the way to oppose something you support is not being one of the usual "grumpy Gus's"
By usual "Grumpy Gus's" I meant that they are the ones who are always mad about something at council meetings, the Bender's and the Douley's, etc.
It was not to disparage the entire group of people against it, just that the people who claim to be against it were not motivated enough to actually come out in force and explain why, in the way that the people for it were.
Other than the Gus's the only two people who spoke agaist the taxwere a paid representative of the Realtor's who read a prepared statement and a retail lease broker who was very wishy-washy in his comments against the tax.
Watch the replay, you'll see what I mean.
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