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Utility tax update

Have you read  your Newark News summer 2014 addition. If you have you saw the front page story, Utility Tax update and extension renewal . The city has fired it's first shot in it's campaign to get an extention to the temparary Measure U 3.5% utility use tax. I don't know about you all, but I voted for a temporary tax to help shore up the city's finances during a revenue shortfall not to give the city a permanent revenue stream.I am defenetly voting no on this extension. If our leadership is compatent then they will sail the good ship Newark around the rocky shores of economic hardships and onto the seas of finacial stability  and if not we will crash on the rocks and like a certain Italian cruise ships captain they should lose their jobs and make way for those who can do a better job  . How do you feel about this extension to a temparay tax and how will you vote and why.

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