An Unfair Assessment
Dear Editor:
The fairest tax of all is no tax. The next fairest is a “fair tax”… pay for what you use or might use. This does not mean everyone pays the same. It costs more to put sprinklers in a 10,000-sq-ft warehouse than a 1,000-sq-ft one. It costs more to protect a 10,000-sq-ft house from a fire than a 1,000-sq-ft house.
Apparently, Deerfield Beach would, for fire protection, tax a 1,000-sq-ft homeowner the same as a 10,000-sq-ft homeowner. Deerfield Beach intends to assess large and small homes the same. This is unfair.
Jack Kornfield
Deerfield Beach
Crabby Jack’s Fire
Dear Editor:
[Sunday morning] I woke and walked out to my patio. The smoke had just broke over the tree line — I live three blocks away from Crabby Jack’s. I threw on a part of shorts and jumped into my truck. I got there at 7 a.m., just as the first fire trucks arrived and started putting water onto the blaze. There were about 10 people there on the street. It looked like something out of a movie scene, flames flaring 50, 60 ft. into the air and trees on fire. It was amazing to witness and feel the heat from the fire across the street.
Jeff Graves
Deerfield Beach
