Property taxes becoming confiscatory

It has been said that the basic tenant of living is “there is no such thing as a free meal.” Everything we enjoy or consume has a cost. If it doesn't cost us, someone else had to pay the price.

Our elected officials don't seem to understand this. They seem to think that they can take, by force, what my labor has produced and it will not damage me.

Our governor seems to think that when he takes her ice cream cone away from his little sister that she should not complain. After all, he is bigger than she and she had an ice cream cone and he did not. Current logic.

Costs for roads and bridges and law enforcement and so forth should be paid with tax dollars. And I agree. I do not think the majority of our tax dollars are spent for the common good but only for the benefit of some individual. This is not right. Some elected official exercises his power to take the fruit of my labor by force and give it to someone who will support him in the next election. I repeat, this is wrong.

Property taxes are becoming confiscatory. In many cases, the property tax is higher than rent used to be. Taxes must be reduced not increased. We have had enough. I have been physically handicapped since I was 6 years old but I was always expected to carry my end. And I did. Now why should the fruit of my labor be taken by force and given to an able body who will not work?

Frederick Steinbron

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