When the proposed penny sales tax hike doesn’t make sense to the doyenne of Broward’s establishment – The Sun-Sentinel – you know it has problems.
The newspaper’s Editorial Board earlier this month not only opposed the tax. They eviscerated it!
Wow.
That’s astonishing.
The Sun-Sentinel is the most visible representative of the Downtown Fort Lauderdale power structure. That’s an inside club of muketymucks that has been pushing the tax increase and will receive much of its benefits.
The editorial should convince readers just how ill conceived the tax plan is.
Didn’t read it? If not, click here.
If you don’t click, you will miss a prime example of how the newspaper’s editorial page has again become a vibrant voice on local affairs. I credit the newish publisher Howard Saltz and his Editorial Board Editor Rosemary O’Hara for this metamorphosis.
The tax increase editorial is part of this transformation.
Filleting the idea from top to bottom, the paper called the tax a collection of “paper thin plans” that are nothing more than “ill considered money grabs.”
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