Nashville Punishes Taxpayers

My hometown of Nashville has just announced a thirty-two percent increase in property taxes. This is in the wake of a continuing forced closure of many businesses here that has lasted over a month and is not being ended by Mayor Cooper in spite of the fact our governor has opened most of the rest of our state as the COVID rates stabilize. The property owners are being forced to pay for the mismanagement of our city by those who continue to mismanage our city. At a time when some city workers continue to be paid while staying at home and not telecommuting, let municipal workers share our sacrifice with pay cuts and layoffs because a tax increase now on property owners who have been deprived of over a month of earning because of the Coronavirus lock down is tyranny!