More support for justifiably higher taxes

I read with interest and support the March 28 opinion offered by Rick Strandrel. He thought it just that those of us who could afford higher taxes should be willing to pay them. I agree. My wife and I are retired and live on gross income of less than $50,000 annually, but we could and would, as Mr. Strandrel suggests, pay more to improve the many services we enjoy that our governments do provide.

I recall an opinion in The Gazette several months ago that suggested that government employees shouldn't be the only ones to support the across-the-board budget cuts. I agreed with that, too. Why should such a small segment of our population, government workers, teachers, suffer the consequences of decreased revenues? There are many of us who could take up the slack, although I know that would not be widely popular.

I would hope that more people would voice supportive opinions, and our legislators, at all levels, would hear us instead only the loud “Tea Party” activists.

Al Seabrooke

Elgin