Letters: Denver’s proposed sales tax increases would pile onto already inflated fast food prices

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Letters: Denver’s proposed sales tax increases would pile onto already inflated fast food prices
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“The last thing taxpayers in Denver need in these inflationary times is two new sales tax ballot proposals that would raise the total sales tax to a staggering 9.65%.” — Dave Lari…

In this October 2021 file photo, a sign with the company logo stands over a McDonald’s restaurant on South Colorado Boulevard in Denver.

One of my life’s public service contributions was creating an academic, research-based three-day seminar entitled: “Dynamic Leadership: Management and Leadership Skills for Public Organizations.” The curriculum was the result of my master’s thesis for UC Denver’s Graduate School for Public Affairs. We concluded with the instructive writings of Robert Greenleaf’s essay, “The Servant as Leader.” Greenleaf deduced that the leader must be a servant first.

Reading this opinion piece just now, I reflected on a conversation I had the day before with my neighbor, a Marine veteran who served and fought in several countries, including Afghanistan. He’s considerably younger than I am, but we have fighting overseas in common. I fought in Vietnam as a young artillery LT. Both of us served our time, bonded with our buddies in arms and finished our time in service successfully.

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