Thank you for the insightful article on City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young, ("Selective ethics," June 21.) The ambitious Mr. Young seems bent on creating a little coup to entangle Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

We in the city on low and fixed incomes can well afford the bottle taxes. If you think we can not afford the taxes, pay a visit to a lottery lines. There are low-income people who borrow against their monthly checks at 25 cents on the dollar.

If the council members have no concerns for the lowly city workers losing their income, then at least care about trying to keep the city gutters and the Inner Harbor clean.

Edie Jordan, Baltimore