Dear Editor,
This debate is about timing, not necessity. We need new schools. We will pay for them sooner or later. A walk around Paine Primary will prove it. Our school in downtown is falling into disrepair. A walk around it will prove it. We cannot send our city’s children to portable classrooms as we watch a school, a city icon, fall to the ground. We can do better.
There are thousands of things we buy each year that cost us more than this proposed increase. Some people in our community are compelled to put signs by the roadside to make sure that every person passing by knows how ridiculous it is to vote for new taxes.
What’s ridiculous is that I could list ten thousand things that cost more money per year than this increase, but the only one being protested in the streets is the one that will make this community a better place to live. It’s not about the money. It’s about our city’s future. Trussville is unique because residents have fought hard over the last 200 years to preserve it. It would be a shame for us not to do the same.
Joshua White
Trussville, Alabama
