Dear Editor:
I would not like anyone to think that I am against education, because that would be false. The only problem I have with another tax, is that it is another tax!
I have raised two sons and watched as they went on with their lives. I have owned houses to live in since 1955 and have paid taxes on each of them. I never complained, not even after my sons graduated from the tax-funded schools. I continued paying those taxes.
Now we come to the situation I find a bit unnecessary. Schools that are built to be more of a mausoleum than an education building, or a set of buildings built to go into the 22nd century as landmarks to be worshipped sports coliseums and more.
Now I don't want you to assume that since I went to schools where we actually had to open the windows during the warmer periods, that I expect the same now in the 21st century with air conditioning, computers, and other up-to-date equipment. I think the new equipment should be a tremendous assethowever, I am not too sure that all of the children today appreciate what they have, as much as they assume that they should have more. Are these new schools for education or something beyond that?
Now to the point of all of thisas I understand it, the powers to be would like all of us to have an additional 20 percent tax on our homes to accomplish (what to some extent is necessary), but not to the extent they are dreaming of. If I had had a school like they are wanting to build for the kids today, I don't think I would have gone home to a place with lesser convenience!
Let's be realistic! We are in a situation where there is no increase in our retirement, and yet costs of everything are going up the ladder faster than Jack climbed the bean stock. Can anyone explain why we, the people who have sacrificed so much through World War II, the Korean Dispute, and all the rest of the military problems, plus paying for a larger government every year, have become a money pit for those that continuously live on credit because they spend more than they make?
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