Letters

The American Cancer Society works in Kentucky communities to save lives and create more birthdays by helping people stay and get well, by finding cures and by fighting back. The ACS staff, community partners and its legion of dedicated volunteers are all working together - with the ultimate goal of eliminating cancer as a major health problem.

The ACS signature fundraising event, Relay For Life, helps raise millions of much-needed dollars to make the organization's programs and services a reality.

E-911 and Rescue are two of the most important services provided by our tax money. Both are very well run as I know from having used both recently.

I'm very disappointed in James Jones and the other members of the Taylor Fiscal Court. They overspent on the jail and are now scrambling to pay for it.

The City has run both of these services for years and they are very good at it.

I like the Nelson County plan. Let the users of the services pay for them.

I recently read in the News-Journal "that both of us (city and county governments) are struggling financially." How can that be when less than two years ago there was a major tax increase for all people either living or working in the city?

The majority of revenue for our local governments comes from taxes, taxes, taxes and 13 more taxes. Here is a list:

Those living in the city pay these taxes:

1. Occupational tax.

2. Real property tax.

3. Tangible tax (fixtures, equipment, inventory).

4. Motor vehicle tax.

The March 12 article on Senate Bill 110, the "Better Access to Quality Eye Care Bill," painted a glowing picture of the bill turned law. The law will neither improve quality of care nor save money. It was pushed by optometry through the state legislature in a rush job in the wake of large campaign donations, and attempts to blur the difference between ophthalmologists (MDs) and non-physicians, optometrists (ODs).