LOST extension hurts those on fixed incomes

I'm voting no and pray that the local-option sales tax doesn't receive a 20-year extension. As proof that taxes were wrongly used, refer to The Gazette front page story on March 17 where Mr. Craig Seeley received extra buyout money. How does one get a higher assessed value from a flood-damaged home? Did he receive money to clean and fix it? This higher assessment should never have happened.

Also did he have to do a large payback of FEMA money as we all do? Another big expense was paying the mortgage for some for several months. I sure didn't get extra help. I didn't have a mortgage but now I do and at age 76, my son will have to take it over.

Let the current tax expire in 2014 and then ask for more, I say. No 20-year blank check. For those of us on a small fixed income with all the new higher prices we pay already, it is too much.

Barbara Sherman

Cedar Rapids