What to do?

Our country is in the midst of one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history. Unemployment is at record lows. Private development of our city’s waterfront will bring in a large tax haul. Property tax assessments and ballooning vehicle taxes are filling the city’s tax coffers.

Yet we can’t hire enough police to keep us safe (“Understaffed force,” Star-Advertiser, July 28). Our roads are crumbling underneath us and into the sea. Our infrastructure is stretched due to the expansion of the tourism industry into our public parks and residential communities. And so on.

Is Mayor Kirk Caldwell so intertwined with the negligent, incompetent and corrupt management of the City and County that he has forgotten he works for the citizens and not those who would exploit our communities?

Impeachment seems to be the political topic of the day, but I believe the 18th century colonists had the right idea for the British crown’s tax collectors. They ran them out on a rail. I think one just might be available.

Richard Ames

Haleiwa

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