Voters need to say ‘enough’

Dear editor:

Here a tax, there a tax, everywhere a tax, tax.

Up a tax here, up a fee there, up the water, up the sewer/waste water, up the trash, make up a surtax charge, tack it on a homeowner’s insurance, change a tax to a fee, and it goes on and on. Keep ‘um too busy working to make ends meet, and there you’ll have them (slaves).

What everyone needs to keep the plantation making money for the spenders. It must be unconscionably liberating to be able to squander other people’s money, an open blank checkbook. Especially, when you know you have people working their hardest figuring out where and how to make the next gouge. Check out Alec and the Municipal League, etc. (see where they are coming from, how they work, and for who).

How many in our government are making in the hundred thousands-plus? Answer: More than should be! It’s more than all the people I’ve known personally or met casually, that are paying taxes, and can’t get ahead. Something’s amiss!

I’ve heard the saying you must rein in the pigs, to control the pigs, cutback on feeding and maybe even eliminating a few when needed.

Just a minute to address the 3-percent surtax charge tacked onto the homeowner’s insurance (wasn’t aware that this happened) to pay city’s fire and police pensions. Didn’t the voters, not so long ago, vote not to bail out the city’s police and firemen pension debt? So, how did they skirt around the voters to get this? And, why should the county residence be paying for the city’s debts? Don’t we have to pay for and support our own county fire and police?

Plus, we can’t even vote these suckers in the city out … Isn’t this taxation without representation? Or, what kind of representation is this? Who the heck filed and voted this legislation into being? “Et tu Brutus!”

If it looks like a pig, oinks like a pig, it’s probable a pig. Some think the city and county could get along. Maybe if pigs could fly or you don’t mind cuddling with vipers. Then again, I’ve heard that pigs can endure venom. What’s the next gouge?

Maybe, another 3-percent surtax charge on our auto insurance, or fee for whatever? On and on … Is this the way to put money into coffers and skirt the taxpayers’ vote or even give taxpayers a chance to vote, just get our legislators to pass a legislation and hide the tack-ons willy-nilly here and there?

When and how can the voters and taxpayers say enough already? Especially, when it’s done to them this way? Without their consent.

Please, if you’re fed up, join the many other fed-up concerned citizens everywhere that feel the pigs have gone amok. E.J. Echols Hot Springs