Re the article "Georges River Council's 8.1 per cent rate add-on" (Leader, September 4).
The proposed 8.1 percent rise in Georges River Council rates flies in the face of the Berejiklian Government's decision to merge councils and reduce costs, and ease pressure on developers to contribute levies toward local services and infrastructure.
This puts developer and investor profits and speculation ahead of community interest and amenity, not dissimilar to the easing of taxes and regulation on business, ensuring that ratepayers foot a bigger bill and free corporations and government of responsibility.
It is also consistent with the council's veiled threat to "rationalise" (sell off) public assets, including making "service efficiencies (cuts), user fees and charges", ensuring fewer overall services, which the Berejiklian Government ensured.
R Piech, Sans Souci
Re the letter from S. Jones ("Demand less, deliver more", Your View, September 25).
No doubt the penny is dropping and there are too many ratepayers fed up with Georges River Council.
Residents are fed up with the destruction of suburbia. Countless editions of the St George Leader have had one main theme now for a long time and that is high density housing and its blight on our landscape.
GRC are nothing more than a tentacle of global socialism being rammed down our throats and the implementation of Agenda 2030 as dictated to us by the UN.
And to top this off, Cr. Hindi is now Deputy Mayor. That will do me.
In September 2020 ratepayers, think long and hard about who you vote for. The difference between Labor and Liberal is the width of a Tallyho paper.
Perhaps it is about time the ratepayers stand firm, don a 'yellow vest' and not pay their rates if this rate increase is granted. Hit GRC where it hurts.
Maree Miller, Penshurst
