Letter: Seniors want only to retain what they have earned

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 | 9:11 a.m.

Why did Jon Ralston take cheap shots at seniors in his Sunday column in your newspaper? He is generally considered to be a community leader. On his "Face to Face" TV show, he does a magnificent job of getting our elected officials to express their goals and aspirations. Recently he was very gracious and accepted an invitation to moderate a panel on taxes at a Community Center in Sun City Summerlin. His dark and dismal depiction of that event, however, was deplorable. He painted a despicable picture of dying seniors decrying having to pay their fair share in taxes.

Like the rest of Las Vegas, Sun City Summerlin is replete with refugees from the tax-and-spend policies of other states. With age comes wisdom, and the seniors in Sun City have lived the real impact of Proposition 13 in California and they love it. The seniors have also seen how California's government created and contrived every conceivable license, fee or user tax to reach into their pockets and pick them clean and they hate it.

Sun City residents do want the Angle Property Tax Restraint and the Beers Tax and Spending Control for Nevada. Ralston was right. The seniors were raucous. Ralston was wrong. The seniors did not move to Sun City to die.

The seniors in Sun City Summerlin have demonstrated over and over again that they live hard, play hard, laugh hard and will fight like hell to keep what they have earned.

State Sen. Bob Beers and Assemblywomen Sharron Angle really are the best hope for a prosperous Nevada.

ROBERT L. ROBEY