The use tax continued

If you voted no last April regarding the use tax, your vote did not count. I found this out while registering my recent purchase of a used truck from the commonwealth of Kentucky at the Cape License Bureau. When I mentioned the tax should only be 4.225 (state tax only), I was informed that was not the case; I would pay the city and county tax also. That was when I found out the defeat of the use tax was actually not a defeat at all. Apparently the tax will continue to be applied until November 2016 unless the people of the city and county "come to their senses" and pass it before then.

In other words, this can and probably will show up sometime in the near future on an upcoming ballot asking us to vote again on this issue hoping we will reconsider and pass it.

Which now brings me to the upcoming Amendment 7 asking us voters to trust our elected officials with a 3/4-cent sales tax on roads. Can we really trust them when there is no transparency or honesty? If they were up front regarding the use tax, the wording on the ballot would have been totally different. This makes me wonder how they will get around the wording on Amendment 7 and use this money for other things besides what it is meant for.

Vote "no" in August.

MARK S. CASTLEMAN, Cape Girardeau