A little fairness please

LAWRENCE BAY sent this to the Quad City Times in rebuttal of their March 25 editorial endorsing the April 7 Rock Island County sales tax referendum complaining of several falsehoods told about our opposition to higher sales taxes. We shall see if this rebuttal gets printed. Nope, it did not get printed. "AS EXPECTED, THE QUAD CITY TIMES HAS ENDORSED THE APRIL 7 SALES TAX REFERENDUM. IT IS THEIR RIGHT TO MAKE ENDORSEMENTS ON ISSUES. WHAT IS NOT THE RIGHT OF THE QUAD CITY TIMES IS TO TOTALLY MISREPRESENT THE ARGUMENTS OF THE OPPONENTS. ..... YOUR EDITORIAL CLAIMS "OPPONENTS EAGER TO MAKE THE VOTE ABOUT TEACHER'S UNIONS, ILLINOIS POLITICIANS, AND THE STATE'S PENSION SINS OF THE PAST" IS TOTALLY FALSE. THE QUAD CITY TIMES HAS PRINTED 15 LETTERS OPPOSING THE SALES TAX REFERENDUM, NOT ONE MENTIONED ANY OF THAT. FOUR OF THE FIFTEEN COMPARED THE SALARIES AND EXPENSES OF ROCK ISLAND AND SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOLS BUT THE VAST MAJORITY MENTIONED SALES TAX DISPARITY. A VISIT TO VOTENO2TAX.BLOGSPOT.COM WILL REVEAL ALL THE PUBLISHED LETTERS AND OTHER ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE SALES TAX. NOT ONE OF THE 73 POSTS MENTIONS PENSIONS OR UNIONS. ...... YOUR EDITORIAL DOES NOT ADDRESS OUR CONTENTION THAT THIS ADDED SALES TAX WILL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO ILLINOIS AND ROCK ISLAND COUNTY BY SENDING MORE ILLINOIS SHOPPERS TO IOWA, PAYING SALES TAXES TO IOWA SCHOOLS AND GOVERNMENTS AND NOT TO ILLINOIS AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS. THIS WOULD RAISE THE SALES TAX TO 8.5 PERCENT IN MOLINE, 10 PERCENT ON PREPARED FOOD. DAVENPORT HAS A 7 PERCENT SALES TAX.PRUDENT SHOPPERS WOULD SAVE $15 ON EVERY $1,000 SPENT BY GOING TO DAVENPORT. ONLY A SPENDTHRIFT WOULD MAKE A LARGE PURCHASE OF FURNITURE OR APPLIANCES IN MOLINE. MANY WOULD DO MOST OF THEIR SHOPPING AND DINING IN IOWA. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS WOULD LOSE $62.50 ON EVERY $1,000 SPENT IN IOWA AND MOLINE WOULD LOSE $12.50. MANY ILLINOIS MOTORISTS ALREADY BUY THEIR FUEL IN IOWA BECAUSE OF TAXES. .....IT IS ODD THAT THE QUAD CITY TIMES EDITORIALS HAVE CRUSADED AGAINST HIGHER IOWA TAXES WHILE CRUSADING FOR HIGHER ILLINOIS TAXES."