Dear Editor:

The concept of tax increment financing (TIF) was born about 30 years ago as a devise to attract business to so-called blighted areas. Like too many government sponsored programs, it has deviated from its original intentions to become a tax shelter for business. Up until now there was some pretense of “job creation.”

The country club is hardly a blighted area and its value as a mechanism of job creation is questionable. Is the seasonal work as caddies, lawn and green maintenance workers, valets, cooks and waiters really the kind of jobs we wish to lavishly subsidized? Are we really creating a satisfying and fulfilling jobs for our graduating high school seniors?

I don’t think so and this taxpayer is going to vote no on November 5.

Fred W. Nehring
Boothbay