Tuesday, September 17, 2013

G.O.U.G.E. to address city council's attack on Laredo garage sales

G.O.U.G.E. or  Grassroots Organization United for Garage-sales Entrepreneurship will be calling their first, organizational meeting to deal with the current pounding garage sales are taking under the present city council.   Only last year, a permit was required for the first time ever in order for someone to hold a garage sale: the permit fee was $5.  This year, the fee was tripled to $15 per garage sale. At that point, the reasoning was that the fee increase would generate an additonal $27,000 to help the hapless city officials offset a growing budget deficit.

Now, you can forget those additional $27,000 going in the city's coffers. At last night's meeting, Cm. Alex Perez made a motion to reduce the number of garage sales allowed per year from three to two. If the city was expecting to rake in $27,000 for 3 garage sales a year, then it makes sense to figure that the city will stand to lose 1/3 of that money ($9,000) by reducing the allowed number of garage sales.

Like the saying goes: "Ellos solos se estan cortando el pescuezo".

3 comments:

  1. Alex Perez doesn't have the brains of a goat. Here is a councilman that can't even put his own house in order when it comes to finances. He's filing for bankruptcy!

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  2. Not the first Alex shenanigans...had his wife the attorney go in front of the tax judge his brother in law IN THE THE B-LAWS OWN COURT ROOM to have his corporations rental properties delinquent tax bills excused....and the judge was the registered agent for that corporation...and when the judgement was overturned by a more honest judge the judgeinlaw had that fine excused. Nice!

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  3. Not the first Alex shenanigans...had his wife the attorney go in front of the tax judge his brother in law IN THE THE B-LAWS OWN COURT ROOM to have his corporations rental properties delinquent tax bills excused....and the judge was the registered agent for that corporation...and when the judgement was overturned by a more honest judge the judgeinlaw had that fine excused. Nice!

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