To the editor:

About this sales tax! Let’s really put the spin on how cheap it is. One penny for $5 spent. Or tell the truth. The tax is for nine years on everything you buy.

Better yet, as an executor of an estate, the funeral bill was over $9,000 and the sales tax was $277, yes in Lawrence, even in death.

The reality is that the tax is for nine years for everyone who lives and shops in the city and that can vote. For those coming to Lawrence, it is like saying “give us your money and leave.” Is this the message the chamber of commerce wishes to send to shoppers from out of town and guests in the city?

There is no plan for operational costs. The tax may be for construction, but nonetheless, the taxpayers are buying the land with tax dollars.

This sales smells to this writer just like the “private partners” yet to be identified in the East Hills business park venture purchased with county taxpayer money.

The rat nest smells.

How dare Commissioner Farmer suggest donating land. The commission does not own any land or any buildings in the city. Even those to be sold, worth a pittance, will most likely be sold through some back-door arrangement and not listed on the open market.

Voters, your $10 purchases for nine years are no small amount.

A “no” vote is too polite. This issue needs an “absolute no” vote.