Taxes
Cincinnati residents now pay too much in taxes, and I will work for lower taxes. The amount we pay is a major hurdle to home ownership, and Cincinnati already has one of the lowest homeownership rates in the nation. We can do better with our money than give it for such projects as the Empire Theater, and then tearing it down; Huntington Meadows, and then tearing it down; the “used car lot” look at the end of the Purple People Bridge, which cost almost $400,000; moving the fountain at Fountain Square; and the $4.3 million the city gave Vandercar Holdings for the road they built to Sam’s Club in Oakley. In August, 2007, City Council voted unanimously to raise taxes to pay for a $30 million giveaway to Corporex, building them a parking garage.
