Every day in the Sun Journal, we have the pleasure of reading about the tax cap and how we taxpayers are going to suffer if it passes.

It’s our understanding that we pay property tax to cover the cost of education, trash collection, snow removal, and fire and police protection. We don’t think property tax was intended to provide a $9 million city hall with all new furniture, a $5 million parking garage and another $5 million one in the works to provide parking for a developer who apparently owns half of Lewiston-Auburn.

Services will be cut and workers will be losing their jobs. Why do two small cities like Auburn and Lewiston require a mayor, a city manager and an assistant city manager? No one from the administrative side of any department appears to be losing his or her job.

On Sept. 23, we saw the photo of a worker installing carpet in the new Auburn Hall. How lovely that there is a 20-foot ceiling; this must be economical to heat. Unfortunately, the walls only have mahogany veneer panels rather than solid wood.

What is wrong with sheetrock and a coat of paint? That is what a lot of homes in the area have, and it is fine for the people who will be paying for the paneling.

The chamber will only seat 150, not nearly enough for the peasants with pitchforks when they storm the building.

John and Kathi Clement, Auburn