Dear Editor, The bullet train boondoggle will cause long-term
businesses and jobs to be lost. Even with short-term construction
jobs for South County residents (those qualified to build
railroads), it appears that there is a net revenue loss for our
local economy.
Hear that train coming? It’s the sound of debt, job loss and taxes

Dear Editor,

The bullet train boondoggle will cause long-term businesses and jobs to be lost. Even with short-term construction jobs for South County residents (those qualified to build railroads), it appears that there is a net revenue loss for our local economy.

Add the annual losses to local business owners and property owners whose taxes/fees must increase to pay for the bullet train’s annual operating losses (some estimates exceed $1 billion), there is an overall net loss for our city.

Tourist dollars will add less than 10 percent of total out-of-pocket tax/fee burdens to be imposed by the state government to pay for the operating losses for rides given to the tourists like High Speed Rail tourists in Europe and Japan.

How many jobs and businesses will we lose forever? The future generations who are expected to pay back the bonds and interest on the debt have no voice in how they’re being thrown under this boondoggle. Shame on us; double-shame on our elected leaders.

Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy

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