My Belly Hurts a Little
But only just a little and it might be because I’m back to work. I carried my table around to a couple of places yesterday and today. And I cleaned the house and did laundry and swept the porch and pooper scooped the front yard, as well as doing massages today. It feels good to be working again. Our cash reserves are just about gone. So, no dining out for a while. Even dining in is so expensive I might have to start fasting.
Speaking of the high cost of living down here, here’s a brilliant piece of work. Our “Waste Management Authority” has come up with a plan to deal with the over-burdened landfill issue we have here. More taxes on everything. A Daily News newspaper article gave numbers like this: food will be taxed at 7 cents/lb, clothing and shoes at 12 cents/lb., etc. People will starve if this goes into effect. I’m happy that we sell our services rather than products, but people won’t be able to afford our services with all this extra expense in their lives. The VI government….what a waste of oxygen. Just thinking about the idiots in power here makes my belly hurt more. I guess it’s time to go to bed and dream about owning our own private island….no morons allowed!
Tags: St. Croix
October 31st, 2007 at 6:53 am
Our city has a run-off tax to handle the rain run off infrastructure. It does rain anymore but we still get taxed.
All that is going to do is cause illegal dumping on the island.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:18 am
We already have a problem with illegal dumping. This tax would be collected at the store. Food prices will go even higher than they are now, and so will everything else that it shipped in and comes in a package.
It’s ridiculous. They need to educated people about buying more environmentally packaged or bulk items. And they should have solved the landfill issue a looong time ago. SEA submitted a proposal to the government years ago and they turned it down. They’re just such jerks….