Published: August 04, 2009 12:10 am      

Letters to the editor - Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009

Pleading for taxpayer action

To citizens of Kokomo, Kokomo union members and politicians:

When are we all going to wake up? Delphi, GM, and Chrysler are screwing us all! If we did not, as private citizens, pay our property taxes, we would be in jail! If we did not honor contractual obligations on pensions, we would be in jail! Try not to pay your property taxes and see how long you can keep your home!

It is time for the unions, elected representatives and private citizens to stand up and say this is enough! Do your job or get out! It’s time for a taxpayer revolt, stop paying taxes until this is resolved or we will all be in the poorhouse!

Terry L. Hoover

Kokomo



Answer to problems in plain view

The prescription for preventing a depression and ending this recession has been written: preserve low tax rates and lower existing rates as much as possible.

More ranting from a radical right-winger? No, this prescription has been enacted and proclaimed successful by liberal policy-makers. The “cash for clunkers” and first-time home buyers programs, heralded as great successes for revitalizing the auto and housing segments of the economy, are nothing more than targeted tax rebates.

Imagine the result for our economy if all Americans were allowed the free use of their earned income instead of having it confiscated as higher taxes and using it to prop up the politicians and corporations who have created this misery.

Can you imagine the result of Americans being able to decide for themselves how much of their hard-earned income to use for savings, investments, and spending instead of having to turn it over for some bureaucrat to tell us how to live?

Why, we would actually enjoy a vibrant economy once again. What a novel idea!

Charles A. Layne

Bunker Hill