Dear Editor,
THERE seems to be the belief by Royston King and ‘the Dark Forces at City Hall’ that poor people deserve their poverty.
Why else would they have rounded up the poor vendors from downtown Georgetown and forced them into the infamous ‘Parliament View Mall’ — an awful, cramped, out-of-the-way facility, to vend their goods?

Why else would they impose a ‘Container Tax’ that would not be borne by the importers or the shipping companies, but the poor consumer at the end of the line?

Why would they force pensioners and other poor home owners in Georgetown to pay an increase in general rates, rather than have a proper valuation exercise done in the city to capture those monstrous buildings owned by the wealthy who are not paying their fair share?

Why would they not pay poor municipal workers on time?

The City Council’s tax systems disproportionately burden the poor.
It seems as though this Town Clerk has forgotten President Burnham’s maxim of the “De Small man is de real man”; and that, not so long ago, he, King, was also a small man when he was an office assistant at Inland Revenue Department and when he squatted on the Council’s reserve in La Penitence.

As the famous local saying goes: “Never curse the bridge you crossed”

He needs to cut poor people some slack, and not forget where he came from.

Faithfully yours,
JAMES MC ONNELL