To the Editor:
Since John Foust has told us nothing about himself, I thought I would look for myself at his record. Turns out John Foust has voted or supported to raise a lot of our taxes.
First he’s voted to raise our property taxes six out of the seven years he’s been in office after he promised as a candidate to “lower the tax burden on homeowners.” Our property taxes have gone up 22 percent since Foust made that broken promise and increased our taxes by over $300 million. He also wants a new $80 million meals tax that even fellow Democrats oppose. In addition he’s supported $1 trillion in health care taxes which include taxes on investments, medical devices and a surtax on good health care plans. Then he supported raising taxes on the sale of a home or the purchase of a car or a hotel stay.
Seems this John Foust is a real one note Johnny – and the only tune he knows is raising our taxes. Yet his ad feebly claims he cut spending of about $5 million in the time he raised our taxes by hundreds of millions and supported billions more in tax increases. Is he serious? And, finally he says in a recent mailing he’s going to “hold the line on taxes.” Priceless!
Marcia Close
McLean