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Show Fair Taxation . Essential To ! community Growth i occasionally, a legislative an-l an-l hVnnlsm appears an anti-a5G anti-a5G store proposal. One of iSlaost outPdated attacks ned up down in Georgia in , ffiorm of a proposed municipal ! t SSSinc ordinance, and was ,liceSv sn3wcd under. Al-I Al-I Sffi J was directed primarily i Sin retailers, an independent SSe the following observation m f why he deliberately chose. a ! Scmess site as near to the chain ! stores S he "could possibly get:" ' I realize they are. an import-!i import-!i ant factor in drawing trade to a i Swnunity. and I reasoned very properly if they did good bus-i bus-i fness that I also would do good business. I have profited by being be-ing near them and by the fact that they draw a lot of business which ordinarily would not come if they weren't here . . . . We f need more and better stores here 0 this is going to be a pros-.! pros-.! perous community, s! "The type of tax proposed by I this ordinance tends to drive business away instead of encour-f encour-f aging it to come in and help de-: de-: yelop the community and the sur-i sur-i rounding territory. If this tax .; represents the trend here, then ! Tm going to look for another I town to move to. I feel that many I other merchants feel the same J way I do about it. We've got to be fair to get and hold business and j industry " |
