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i RUA, • BOOK Lee County Board of Commissioners 106 Hillcrest Drive Sanford, NC 27330 George J. Wilberg 5021 Simpson Drive Sanford. NC 27330-7021 Tel: 919 718 6135 E-maii:ford8nI@juno.com January 23, 2008 • Referendum on sales tax or land transfer tax -1 cly~ W oG- v~ TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: To say or support the NO TAX platform would be utter foolishness. Revenues iust be generated in order to support the infrastructure that the citizens and businesses require. This-is one of the fastest growing areas of America and offers myriad opportunities for many. With our huge illegal immigrant population who are currently being served with many services, that require massive amounts of funding this portion of society should share their fair burden. Many kiosks have been set up for these people to send money back to their legal home country with the majority going to Mexico. In the meantime they enjoy jobs, social services, food stamps, subsidized housing, and other advantages of our American society. For those who invest in real property and work hard to do that it would be unfair to have them pay this 0.4% tax on land transfers. Land transfers to a large degree fuel our economy and have led to our present prosperity. That prosperity is being eroded by this vexing immigrant problem. In order to right this wrong to some degree the only plausible solution would he to tax all the 0.25% local option sales tax. If they wish to share in our society they should also bear the burden of helping to pay for those services. As a land owner in Lee County, an American citizen, and a tax payer my support will go 100% to the universal sales tax option as it is the only fair equitable distribution of the burden. Sales tax gets a YEA! The wrong decision must without reservation be the land transfer tax-to that I say NAH! Sincerely, 0 , ~1 0 22 WE 27 JAN 2 5