Tagged: Taxes

Bob Buckhorn insults Ruskin

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn insults nearby community of Ruskin

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, attempting to discredit the many citizens who disagree with him on the Go Hillsborough sales-tax proposal, pompously belittles them all as “3 tea party bloggers sitting in their underwear in their basements in Ruskin.” Disparaging the community of Ruskin is no way to gain our support.

La Gaceta July 17, 2015

La Gaceta trashes Go Hillsborough sales tax plan

Patrick Manteiga, editor of La Gaceta, wrote a thorough analysis & major trashing of the county’s push to raise our sales tax to pay for some transportation projects — mostly roads & road improvements, with relatively little for mass transit.