Mine, mine, mine. All mine. Taxation is theft.
Yikes – so much bad information. And, such a sad opinion from Rep. Josh Yokela (Monitor Opinion, April 1).
Taxes are for the common good. Can you fix your own road or make sure that that bridge is safe? Public education benefits all of us – educated citizens are valuable.
And efforts to tax us at 100 percent? On what planet? There is a proposal to substantially increase the marginal tax rate to 70 percent but marginal is just that – income over $10 million. That means your income under $10 million is taxed at a much lower rate (something so many of us have to worry about).
Taxation is theft is a silly slogan made to make us think we are fools to pay taxes. Was your road plowed this winter? Did the fire department in your town use the fire truck this year to save your house or your neighbor’s house? Do kids in your town know how to read?
We are a community. We live together, even as we individually pursue our version of happiness. There is such a thing as the common good, and it is valuable to each of us. Thank goodness most of us know this. We do go to town meeting so that we have input into how our taxes are used, but most of us don’t go there to yell at our town officials that taxation is theft.
Taxes are part of the price that we pay to remain a community and a civil society. The honorable representative is silly.
JAN SCHAFFER
Warner