NFL owners punted on simple anthem solution
Again, the NFL owners whiffed on the simplest solution to the National Anthem riff (“Owners adopt anthem policy,” Sports, May 24). The game’s bosses decided that their best bet was to effectively order the players to “stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.” Instead, the owners should have simply set new boundaries for workplace behavior. In doing so, they could have unemotionally stated that protests at any and all times are prohibited for all NFL employees while in a workplace capacity – and then defined workplace to include pregame sidelines. The debate would have been reduced to simple rules accountability: “You can’t smoke cigarettes while in uniform on the sidelines, you can’t wear cowboy boots while in uniform on the sidelines, and you can’t perform protests while in uniform on the sidelines.” Case closed.
GEORGE LEVINS, JACKSON
Skyrocketing tax assessments warrant further inquiry
Here we go again! Fulton County sent out property tax assessments. My property assessment increased by over 60 percent. I’m going to fight this via the appeal process and win, as I have over the past 12 years. But why do I have to do the Board of Assessors’ job by hiring an independent appraiser, going through the hoops of appeals, and finally plead my case to the Board of Equalization? Because the Board of Assessors purposely makes it difficult so that the majority of property owners give up. How about the AJC doing an investigative series on the assessors to determine how much they are paid by the taxpayers of the county? Which county commissioners selected these individuals? Finally and more importantly, list what the assessors’ personal properties have been assessed at this year vs. last year. I’m going to bet they didn’t get hit with a 60 percent increase. I’d love to hear from our elected officials on what they are doing to protect property owners from this shakedown.
DEAN HEINZ, JOHNS CREEK
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