Amazon taxation
Big Law, Big Oil and Gas, Big Banking, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Medic, Big Media, Big Politico — all are collaborative participants in Big Government and its extravagant excesses, crippling the economy and breaking the backs of working taxpayers at the bottom.
At a state level, excessive six-digit government salaries and commensurate pensions weigh heavily on the economy, yet the economic answer apparently is not reduction of these salaries. Opted instead is increased taxation affecting the lower-income electorate, which has proportionately seen little increase in living wages in these inflationary times.
No doubt, the impact of taxation on Mississippi Amazon customers will hurt many Mississippians barely getting by on low wages. If this was even a predetermined, emphatic consideration, it lost out to salaries of lawmakers who, in their financial comfort, had no fear of losing 7 percent on purchases.
No longer servant to the electorate, Big Politico is unanswerable and purposefully unavailable to the very electorate.
Disgusted by Greed
Chassaniol bill
Regarding Kell Kellum’s letter to the editor (“Don’t mess with Arts Commission,” Jan. 30):
Read every bill that originates from Sen. Lydia Chassaniol’s or Sen. Gray Tollison’s desk very carefully.
Most people did not know about the proposed consolidation of Carroll and Montgomery County school districts until it was almost too late to do anything about it.
Sen. Chassaniol may try to pull the wool over our eyes again.
reddrover
Greenwood Utilities
Regarding the article “Home solar system: Homeowner optimistic about prospects” (Jan. 30):
Shame on Greenwood Utilities for not offering a more customer-friendly deal to Dr. Anita Batman.
And shame on them also for its ridiculously regressive rate structure. It rewards customers for using more energy, and punishes poor people and those who conserve. That is the opposite of what they ought to be doing.
Hal Fiore
