JOSEPH J. DESALVO, JR. with Charles Henry Rowell

The taxes that the city and the state have been receiving have been so diminished by the destruction of the homes, which drastically reduces the property tax revenues, and we don't have the visitors, so there's a substantial diminution of the sales tax income. Then, too, a lot small businesses are closed and half of the people have just left the city, so income and franchise tax receipts are lower.