Save Our Homes is not fair
To the editor:
It was with some amusement that I read Mr.Wilkinson’s defense of SOH.
My wife and I bought a lot in Cape Coral some years ago because we intended to build a home and spend part of the winter months there. We were unaware of the SOH inequity when we purchased, which we would not have done had we known.
Mr. Wilkinson’s statement that eliminating the SOH inequity will only spread the misery to the homesteaders ignores the fact that such a “solution” would not alleviate any of the misery that has been suffered by the non-resident taxpayers.
We add nothing to the tax base and our only connection with Cape Coral now is paying the obligations assessed against us because we own property there. Of course our taxes have increased at a much higher level than those of a Cape Coral homesteader.
I understand that most of the officials, Mr. Wilkinson included, are elected.
If, as he suggests, the millage rate is the real problem and that it should be reduced, then the registered voters, some of whom have apparently watched idly as the taxes, the vast increase of which they weren’t paying, finally rose to a level uncomfortable enough to complain about, are the ones responsible to bring about such change.
Mark Sullivan
Cape Coral