Not much good, but lots of bad and ugly

It was interesting reading the "Our View" staff editorial April 28. You know, the one titled "The good, bad and ugly of county taxes."

The first section addressed the car tax. This is the same tax county supervisors admitted they screwed up last year by failing to understand what they were voting for.

Yet these same managers of the public funds did nothing to address the squeeze they are putting on the residents of Culpeper County this year through this car tax.

I was also interested in the opinion expressed by the writer who could, with apparently a straight face, say that "this is a fair amount" when writing of the real estate tax. I do not know how one can arrive at that position; there is nothing fair about the real estate tax.

I pay thousands of dollars each year to satisfy the ever-increasing levies of the pharisees and receive little in return: I have no water service, sewer service, street lights, fire protection (except for the volunteers), trash pickup, police protection (except an occasional pass by from sheriff's deputies - and one of my cows was gut shot and killed a few years back, but no one has been held accountable for that.
I do not and have not had a child in the school system of this county. Of course, there are some services provided me - they just do not come immediately to mind.

And it is interesting to read that the writer supports and recommends adoption of a meals tax for the county that would "theoretically" (his word, not mine) offset taxes in other areas. If you believe that, there are a bunch of people in Arizona who will be happy to sell you their oceanfront property.

Any, and I repeat any, new tax will just become a means of extracting additional dollars from you, and those monies will be spent with as little fiscal discipline as all the other monies from which you now never receive appropriate benefit. This is not just a local phenomenon but is state and nationwide.

The Star-Exponent ran a column from the Richmond Times-Dispatch Wednesday that ideates a new means of enhancing the state coffers. It is being considered that a GPS (global positioning satellite) program be developed to track the number of miles one drives so that you can be taxed on mileage. (The fuel tax at the gas/diesel pumps is insufficient to meet the highway department's need for repairs due to more fuel-efficient vehicles).

Pardon me, but I have a problem with the convoluted thinking here. If total fuel consumption is increasing - every report I read says that it is - shouldn't the tax revenues also be increasing-

Figures from the Energy Information Administration show that the monthly increase in gasoline sales from 2000 through 2006 have averaged about 6½ percent. Why is the Times-Dispatch saying that revenues are falling-