Harvey desparate

Aah! Desperate times call for more desperation. The young native, JT, the 'coming Maori', is putting the wind up the incumbent mare in the Waitakere horse race. Maybe the reins of the 'eco' city are about to change.

A sideline: 'Eco' is a reference to the state of your wallet post paying for exorbitant and ever rampant WCC taxes and user charges. All required to fund Bob's millstone legacy on ratepayers - 'Son of Britomart'.

Seems after 15 years at the reins, with nary a neigh on such matters, Bob the ex-spin doctor has realised what most know - a tax on a tax is just plain old double dipping and has to stop. GST on rates is just not cricket and removal thereof is offered to ratepayers as salvation for his imminent dumping re-election.

The usual suspects, such as the Local GuvMINT Association prez and the coiffured one, as Minister of Double Dipping, have cried foul and warn of dire consequences should the GST be not paid.

I, for the first time ever, admit to having to agree with an utterance from Bob re rates. While he is looking to give a 12.5% discount on taxes, this will not happen, as the other 80 odd trough wallowers will not budge for fear of damaging the siphon line directed into their wallets.

Times must be desparate, JT, your first job as Mayor is to implement a 12.5% cut in rates.