gwinnetians...

This is from lindseylee21
in the gwinnett LJ community

Are you aware that our Gwinnett Commissioners have proposed a 25 - 30% property tax increase Gwinnett residents? It will be on the higher end if you live in a city. For example, the proposal for Norcross residents is to increase taxes by 30.173% to be exact.

Placing this incredible burden on our residents and businesses in this difficult economy is unbelievable and I will not stand by and watch it happen without a fight.

State law requires the Commissioners hold 3 public hearings on this mammoth tax increase. Two of them will be TODAY, Tuesday, 5/26 at 4:30pm and 6:15pm. It’s quite obvious that the Commissioners wanted to make it as inconvenient as possible for citizens to attend, by scheduling it the day after the Memorial Day holiday. There is one last hearing on June 2 at 10:30am, after which they will vote on this historic tax hike. The hearings will be held at the Gwinnett Justice & Administration Center at 75 Langley Dr. in Lawrenceville.

I ask you to help publicize this urgent call to send our Commissioners a clear message: “Do not jack up our taxes just so you can expand county government by 10% this year alone.”

Time is very short. Yesterday, the Gwinnett Daily Post printed an Open Letter to Gwinnett Taxpayers from Mayor Dave Williams of Suwannee. I hope you will read it and pass this email along to as many Gwinnett residents and businesses as you can. Also, please call the commissioners and express your outrage at their failure to reduce county government

Charles Bannister: 770.822.7010 Charles.Bannister@gwinnettcounty.com
Shirley Lasseter: 770.822.7001 Shirley.Lasseter@gwinnettcounty.com
Bert Nasuti: 770.822.7002 Bert.Nasuti@gwinnettcounty.com
Mike Beaudreau: 770.822.7003 Mike.Beaudreau@gwinnettcounty.com
Kevin Kenerly: 770.822.7004 Kevin.Kenerly@gwinnettcounty.com

As Gwinnett County resident, I can assure you that they WILL NOT change their minds on this scheme unless a lot of citizens show up at these hearings. I hope you will make an effort to attend one of these meetings to send a clear message to the Commissioners.

Thanks,
Lindsey

to the masses...

even when I was a christian, I never saw a place for taking things to the law. But as most Christians, yall want to change people's outward behaviors and never effect their hearts. Pass a law to make people appear holy and once they appear just like you, who cares about the heart. According to your faith, lead em to God and you wouldnt have to worry about this topic.
It is funny how yall say that when it goes your way, but cry out when the votes are against you. I am not upset at their right to vote, or honestly the court's ruling. I am upset that that many people call on the government to intervene in personal lives while this same group cries anytime government wants to limit their guns or do anything they disagree with.
So honestly, if the people voted to Tax churches as normal businesses, your group would be up in arms rallying for the churches to overturn the verdicts... doubt me, look at abortion...Yell at liberals for calling on courts while you do the same thing. hmmm Jesus would be proud
Hypocrisy is a beautiful thing and your Lord loves it.
3 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?