Great idea for many small communities. I may live in Peru but I wholeheartedly support people supporting the Mom and Pop stores in their own town. After all that is what makes for a vibrant community and actually contributes to the community spirit of a town.
I only wish we had more in our city.
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After the Mayor's increase sales tax goes into effect on Jan 1, 2012 , WATCH THE SALES IN PERU GO DOWN.
Keep the the news trib paper and check a year from now like I will and everyone will see just IN TIME FOR ELECTION that the Mayor has screwed up AGAIN and has literally driven business OUT of PERU.
Mayor Harl's, list of screw up's just keep getting longer and LONGER. Is there anyone keeping score ? like I am.
8:38 - Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
Thanks for letting us know.
Yes, an absolutely brilliant understanding of marketing to raise the sales tax rate above the rest of the surrounding area when Peru is already collecting more sales tax than a city that has twice its population and geographic size. And, more than 3 times the sales tax revenue of its twin city.
Incidentally Black Friday retail store sales are up 6% from last year and RETAIL ONLINE SALES ARE UP 25%. You do not have to be a screen star of "Brilliant Mind" to understand this trend, do you?
Good business practices do not emphasize that you increase the status of your competitors and weaken your own. Peru politicians should never, never ,never have fooled with one of the two cash cows which it has had. The closest they should have gotten was to keep practicing on demolishing the old power plant and enlighten all of us with how many years that is going to take to accomplish.
Many years ago there was a comment made "Would the last person to leave the City of Peru please turn off the lights". I hope it is not time to start hiding the light switch!!!!!
By all means Mr or Mrs Brilliant at 8:45, please enlighten my challenged brain capacity and tell me how you would have paid for the extremely old and crumbling infrastructure around the city that was not properly maintained by wonderful era of the Great Wizard of Bakerville? Remember, at your high intelligent level, there is not quite $5million in wiggle room in the operating budget of the City that you can use to cover the basic repairs of a small job, let alone a major project. So please, please, please, inform the uneducated public how this task was going to be achieved! Hmmm....?????
9:06 challenged brain there is no need to inform the uneducated public how this task was to be achieved. Your reference "uneducated public" high lights your opinion of those who live in Peru and the gap you have created between yourself and all others. Today with blogs, radio, newspapers, and soon to be televised city council meetings the public is the most educated group of citizens in the history of our country. They also understand when they are told one thing and another is done. It appears that Mayor Baker did not fill your wishes but in your reference to the wonderful era of the Great Wizard of Bakerville you must admit that Don understood business and did not underestimate people and their abilities.
1:43 After reading all of your comment, I still don't have your answer. Again, please let me know what you would have done to raise the funds necessary for all of the infrastructure repairs that need to be addressed immediately. (emphasize my comment "immediately" since gradual proactive measures were "overlooked" by previous administrators) Oh, by the way, you have totally missed my intrepretation of the Peru citizens. They were wise enough to give the royal boot to "44 years of experience and wisdumb. Smartest people I know. Do I want to keep blaming the past. No. But I do want to make damn sure we don't fall back in that irresponsible pattern again. Very, very poor planning.
P.S. Just out of curiosity, how many times has the Y raised their membership rates in the last 10 years in order to pay their bills. What % was the increase from the orignal base year? What would be the incremental cost overall to a family over the 10 year period? Wonder if any of the other nay voters for the tax increase ever raised the rates in their personal businesses. I'm pretty sure their costs/inputs increased. Did they keep their sales rates the same as 10 years ago? Just curious. Please comment.
Everything that is being said above is true but why do we, the citizens, have to pay for everything? Why can't government on all levels cut wasteful spending? In Peru, is it necessary for such a small town to purchase, maintain, and fuel so many personal? Maybe if we handled our money better we wouldn't have to keep taxing the citizens.
post above 9:40 sorry meanth "personal vehicles"
Anon 10:25 I didn't realize that Eakas had to be done immediately. How can someone even start to compare anything in the entire area to the YMCA. For a area of our size it is the finest in the country - bar none. Look at the Y and than look at Peru and compare the amount of wasteful spending. At $5,000,000+ per year in sales tax Peru has guts charging its citizens a property tax. What are the citizens of Peru getting for their taxes? Previous administrators, previous administrators all you want where is the plan of the present administrators?
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