Tax increase should not go to charitable donations

This letter is in reference to your front-page article on July 13 regarding the 7-cent property tax increase. I was reading your article and was absolutely sickened when I read the details of my tax money being used to fund $200,000 in charitable donations.

Billy Wood is right on. How dare our aldermen and our mayor forcibly use our money to fund some charitable pet cause of theirs. They are clearly overstepping their bounds. I would like to know which charity they are donating money to so I don’t do the same.

I question the legality of such a move. Our aldermen and mayor may not hear our voices now, but come election day we will be heard loud and clear.

Anton Varshavchik
Dundee Circle
McMinnville