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Tax cut means savings for all

Let's see, first it was the Bus, then the massive jail expansion, which only benefited Corrections Corporation of America, then the emergency operations center, the purchase of the leaky water company, two new libraries, a new facility for the Building Department, new fire department stations, widening of several roads, bus stop buildings at $10,000 apiece, and now a proposed courthouse expansion/remodeling, not to mention the hiring of new bureaucrats.

When is enough enough?

Budget director George Zottelein, you have it all wrong when you make statements such as a half-mill cut in the property tax rate will cost the county $4-million. This is backward. A half-mill cut will save the county $4-million. After all, we taxpayers are the county. You are merely a bureaucrat occupying an office in our county.

William Kingeter, Spring Hill

Brown-Waite must clarify views

I was at the Greater Hernando County Chamber of Commerce candidates' forum in Brooksville Oct. 12. John Russell, the Democratic candidate for the 5th Congressional District, and Ginny Brown-Waite, the Republican incumbent, were featured. Times editor Mike Konrad gave Ms. Brown-Waite a question that seemed to be aimed at allowing her to distance herself from the Bush administration by fuzzing her support for the war in Iraq.

It appears to me there are only three possible options in Iraq.

The first is to cut our losses and get out now. There would be some damage to U.S. interests, but it would end the drain on American lives and resources caused by a war that we are, frankly, losing.

The second is to send in enough troops and resources to get the job done. This would take hundreds of thousands more troops and hundreds of billions of dollars more. This would buy us only a chance at success.

The third is to rearrange the deck chairs new government, divide the country into ethnic regions, etc. and stay the course. This might distract the public for a few months, but it is essentially the same approach we're using now: inadequate American force arrayed against a powerful popular resistance.

Anybody who has been paying attention knows that Mr. Russell favors an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. In the interest of clarity, Ms. Brown-Waite owes it to us to tell us what, exactly, she thinks the U.S. should do.

Dallas Dunlap, Brooksville

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